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.
BMA, "Fifty Prints," June 1929.
BMA, "The Face of America: Modernist Art, 1910-1950," 9 October - 29 December 1996.
Easton, Academy of the Arts, "The Face of America: Modernist American Art 1910-1950," 12 September - 25 October 1997.
BMA, "The Face of America: Modernist Art, 1910-1950," 9 October - 29 December 1996.
Easton, Academy of the Arts, "The Face of America: Modernist American Art 1910-1950," 12 September - 25 October 1997.
"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.
