Wharton Harris Esherick
Harvesting
1926
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Wharton Harris Esherick
Harvesting
1926
Physical Qualities
Wood engraving, Sheet: 306 x 347 mm. (12 1/16 x 13 11/16 in.)
Image: 155 x 188 mm. (6 1/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number
1929.11.3
Wood engraving used as an illustration for Walt Whitman's poem "As I Watched the Ploughman Ploughing" (Philadelphia: Franklin Printing Company, 1928); it was also published in the February 1929 issue of "Vanity Fair"
Bought from Fifty Prints Exhibition at Museum in June, 1929.
"Prints by Wharton Esherick"; Exhibiton organized by The Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia and the The Wharton Esherick Museum Paoli, Pennsylvania, March 11 - April 29, 1984; illustrated catalogue.
Inscribed: Signed l/r in pencil, Wharton E. Esherick 1927; l/l, title.
