The Dream of Reason
Artist
Fritz Eichenberg
American, born Germany, 1901 - 1990
Date1976
MediumWoodcut
DimensionsOverall: 11 x 8 1/4 in. (27.9 x 21 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 21 × 17 in. (53.3 × 43.2 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 21 × 17 in. (53.3 × 43.2 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Sheldon and Karen Hurst
Object number1988.1
On View
Not on viewCollections
- Works on Paper
InscribedLower left: "The Deam of Reason" Center: "A.P." "to Sheldon & Karen" Lower right: "Fritz Eichenberg".
DescriptionThe artist fallen asleep at his work bench with his head and arm resting on an open book. His engraving tools lay by him. An owl perches on the back of his chair. Eichenberg was well-known as a book illustrator. The figures behind him in his dream are authors, including Edgar Allen Poe and one of the Bronte sisters. Others may be Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Over the artist's shoulder is an ecclesiastical figure, probably Sir Thomas More, who is looking at his own image on an engraved plate.Exhibition History"Artist, Book, Image: The Prints of Fritz Eichenberg." The Hyde Collection, 1987."From the Vault: Staff Selections", The Hyde Collection, Hoopes Gallery, January 12, 2019- March 31, 2019Provenance1988, Glens Falls, NY, The Hyde Collection Trust
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