Object number2023.33.1

Farmers Wife

Date1937

Artist Stefan Hirsch (American, 1899 - 1964)

CultureAmerican

MediumLithograph in four colors

EditionOne from an edition of 200

DimensionsImage: 11 x 8 in. (27.9 x 20.3 cm)
Sheet: 14 x 10 in. (35.6 x 25.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of Joel Rosenkranz, NY

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

SignedOn recto, printed signature lower right: Stefan Hirsch; on verso, signed upper left in pencil: Stefan Hirsch

InscribedOn recto, printed lower right: 1937; printed lower left: AC imp; on verso, by artist, upper left in pencil: Bennington, Vermont / "Farmers Wife" / Lithograph in 4 colors / Edition 200 / Price $5.-

DescriptionDepiction of a woman on her knees holding a bowl in a box-like interior with a single lightbulb hanging from above. The forms are simplified into loose shapes and colored in with a dense scribbling of color.

Terms

female

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