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Women in War

David Smith

Women in War

1941

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David Smith

Women in War

1941

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 255 × 330 mm. (10 1/16 × 13 in.) Plate: 173 × 227 mm. (6 13/16 × 8 15/16 in.) Framed: 15 1/8 × 19 1/4 × 2 in. (38.5 × 48.9 × 5.1 cm.)
Credit Line Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Fund
Object Number 2016.68
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2016; Charles M. Young Fine Prints, Portland, CT; Sotheby;'s November 23, 2015, lot 324, listed as "Property From a Private Midwest Collection"; Cleo and James Fitch
Cleo and James Fitch (friends of the artist)
Des Moines Art Center, "Iowa Collects." May 4 - July 28, 1985.
Greeley, Robin Adele, Samantha Kavky, Oliver Shell, and Oliver Tostmann. "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s." New York, NY: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Baltimore Museum of Art and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2018, ill.

Inscribed: lower right in plate: "AE41"; across bottom in graphite: "2/12 1941 Women and War To C + J.F. David Smith"

Markings: WM: BFK

Artist

David Smith

born Decatur, IN 1906; died Bennington, VT 1965

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