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The Patrician Women on Their Terraces

1960

Benton Murdoch Spruance

Associated Names

Benton Spruance

Artist, American, 1904 - 1967

The image consists of swirling lines and elongated shapes interlacing across the composition, with two reclining human figures in the center. Around them are abstract vertical forms and rounded, textured shapes. The artwork combines light and dark areas to create depth.

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Artwork overview

Medium

lithograph (stone) in black
Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number

1964.8.1568
Catalogue Raisonné

Fine/Looney 1986, no. 418

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1986

Fine, Ruth and Robert F. Looney. The Prints of Benton Murdoch Spruance. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 1986.

Wikidata ID

Q65507748

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