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On Such a Night

Pennerton West

On Such a Night

1945

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Pennerton West

On Such a Night

1945

Physical Qualities Etching, aquatint, and softground etching; printed in black (intaglio), Sheet: 650 x 495 mm. (25 9/16 x 19 1/2 in.) Plate: 442 x 347 mm. (17 3/8 x 13 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Désirée Hayter, Paris
Object Number 2013.44
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2013; Desirée Hayter, Paris; the artist
Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17
Weyl, Christina. The Women of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019.

Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "'On such a night'"; lower right in graphite: "Pennerton West '46"

Markings: none

Artist

Pennerton West

1912–1964

American, 1913-1965
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