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Edge of the Birches, 1951 (published 1954)

Not on View

Medium

etching in brown on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 23.65 × 30.96 cm (9 5/16 × 12 3/16 in.)

sheet: 32.86 × 40.48 cm (12 15/16 × 15 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Accession Number

2015.19.1296

Artists / Makers

Luigi Lucioni (artist) American, 1900 - 1988

Image Use

lower left in plate: L. Lucioni 51; lower right in graphite: Luigi Lucioni; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: "The Edge of the Birches"

stamped lower center verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]

Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Bristow, Frank B.
Corcoran Gallery of Art

1984: Embury, Stuart P. The Etchings of Luigi Lucioni: A Catalogue Raisonné. Nebraska: S.P. Embury, 1984, p. 41, no. 117.

2016: Windisch, Gail, and Sylvan Cole, Jr. Art for Every Home: An Illustrated Index of Associated American Artists Prints, Ceramics, and Textile Designs. Manhattan: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, 2016, p. 136, no. 1234.

Edge of the Birches, 1951 (published 1954)