River Landscape #2
Artist
Dorothy Dehner
American, 1901 - 1994
Date1954-1956
Mediumetching
DimensionsSheet: 8 1/2 x 22 1/4 in. (21.6 x 56.5 cm)
Plate mark: 4 1/2 x 17 3/4 in.
Plate mark: 4 1/2 x 17 3/4 in.
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Object number2011.7.6
On View
Not on viewCollections
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Works on Paper
SignedTwo complete and different sets of signatures and inscriptions. LR, just below plate mark, in pencil, cursive: "Dorothy Dehner 1954". On opposite lengthwise side, just below plate mark (UR and upside down when the opposite side is legible), in pencil, cursive: "Dorothy Dehner ' 56"
InscribedLL along long side of image dated 1954, pencil, cursive: "River Landscape 23/35 (or 38?)" ; and just outside the plate mark on the long side of the image dated 1956, in pencil, cursive: "River Landscape 32/40"
MarkingsOn verso: "RL #2". Watermark: "BFK RIVES/ FRANCE".
DescriptionCuriously, the inscriptions seem to indicate that Dehner may have thought of this print as being oriented in one direction when it was first printed in 1954 and then completely reversed when inscribed again in 1956.Exhibition History"Dorothy Dehner at the Hyde", Hoopes Gallery, The Hyde Collection, January 27, 2013 - April 14, 2013.ProvenanceCollection of the artist; Dorothy Dehner Foundation, 1994; donation to The Hyde Collection, 2011.
