Anshutz on Anatomy
1912
Artist, American, 1871 - 1951

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 18.7 x 22.8 cm (7 3/8 x 9 in.)
sheet: 29.8 × 39.4 cm (11 3/4 × 15 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1964.8.1874
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Catalogue Raisonné
Morse 1969, no. 155, viii/viii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia; gift to NGA, 1964.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2016
Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 62.
Bibliography
1969
Morse, Peter. John Sloan's Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings, Lithographs, and Posters. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1969, pp. 179-180, no. 155, viii/viii.
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite: 100 proofs; lower center in graphite: Anshutz talks on Anatomy; lower right in graphite: John Sloan; lower edge in graphite: "Tom Anshutz, our old teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy, gave anatomical demonstrations of great value to art students. / Modelling the muscles in clay, he would then fix them in place on the skeleton. Those present in this record of a talk / in Henri's New York class include: Robert and Linda Henri, George Bellows, Walter Pach, Rockwell Kent, John and Dolly Sloan."; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: 34 / C3216; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: AW
Wikidata ID
Q65510453