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“January: Reading Seed Catalogs” Plate

2009-2016

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“January: Reading Seed Catalogs” Plate

2009-2016

Physical Qualities Earthenware dinner plate with transferred engravings (recto and verso), 12 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 1 5/8 in. (31.8 x 31.8 x 4.1 cm)
Portfolio/Series Plate 1 from the series "The Autobiography of a Garden"
Credit Line Sidney M. Friedberg Acquisitions Endowment for Prints and Drawings
Object Number 2017.67.1
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2017 (at the Print Fair); Mary Ryan Gallery, NY

Inscribed: Marked on reverse of plate "JANUARY/Reading Seed Catalogs"

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