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Harlem Sphinx

Werner Drewes

Harlem Sphinx

1931

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Werner Drewes

Harlem Sphinx

1931

Physical Qualities Woodcut, Sheet: 277 × 376 mm. (10 7/8 × 14 13/16 in.) Image: 200 × 257 mm. (7 7/8 × 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Wolfram U. Drewes, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number 1997.4
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1997; Wolfram Drewes (the artist's son); the artist

Inscribed: FACE: Below image, graphite L, 'n.2 1-XXX' and R, 'W. Drewes - 1931'; BL, 'Nv. 39'; BR, 'tx'

Artist

Werner Drewes

born Canig, Germany 1899; died Reston, VA 1985

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