Colored Baptizing, 1951-1952

Not on View

The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore

wood engraving in black on wove paper

image: 17.78 × 12.38 cm (7 × 4 7/8 in.)

sheet: 22.86 × 16.19 cm (9 × 6 3/8 in.)

Lehman 1977, no. 618

2015.19.1267

Clare Leighton (artist) American, born England, 1898 - 1989

lower left in graphite: 21/150 Colored Baptizing; lower right in graphite: Clare Leighton

stamped lower right 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

1952: White, Newman Ivey, ed. The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, vol. 1. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1952, pp. 226-227.

1977: Fletcher, William D. Clare Leighton, An Exhibition: American Sheaves, English Seed Corn. Massachusetts: Boston Public Library, 1977, p. 21, no. 618.