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Celebrating American art and artists
Art & Artists
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Artists Reimagining the Collection
Meet the 50 makers selected from more than 1,600 submissions

Two Women on the Shore

1898 / c.1917 or later (1920s?)

Edvard Munch

Associated Names

Edvard Munch

Artist, Norwegian, 1863 - 1944

Edvard Munch

Printer, Norwegian, 1863 - 1944

The image displays curving lines and bold shapes in an abstract composition. A figure with long red hair and a white dress stands beside a large black shape resembling a cloaked figure. The background transitions from green to blue, while the foreground is tan with white outlined shapes resembling scattered stones.

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Artwork overview

Medium

color woodcut and linoleum cut on wove paper
Credit Line

Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection) and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to image): 46.2 x 51 cm (18 3/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Accession Number

1978.15.4
Catalogue Raisonné

Woll 2001, no. 133, State iv/iv

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2001

The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001.

2003

"Edvard Munch -- Theme and Variation", Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, 2003, no. 108.

2013

Edvard Munch: A 150th Anniversary Tribute, NGA, 2013.

Bibliography

1907

Schiefler, Gustav. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs bis 1906. vol. 1. Berlin, 1907 (reprinted 1974); and Schiefler, Gustav. Edvard Munch. Das graphische Werk 1906-1926. vol. 2. Berlin, 1927. (reprinted 1974).

2001

Woll, Gerd. Edvard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works. New York, 2001.

Inscriptions

none

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65567888

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