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Artist/Maker
Eva Hesse
(American, born in Germany, 1936–1970)
Date1954
MediumLithograph
DimensionsImage: 13 × 9 3/4 in. (33 × 24.8 cm)
Sheet: 19 15/16 × 13 in. (50.6 × 33 cm)
Sheet: 19 15/16 × 13 in. (50.6 × 33 cm)
Credit LineEllen H. Johnson Bequest
Object number1998.7.45
Status
Not on viewThis youthful work by Hesse has its roots in the dense, mysterious woodland scenes by German Renaissance artists such as Albrecht Altdorfer and Albrecht Dürer. At the same time, it presages the hanging, drooping lines of Hesse's later sculptures and constructions.
ProvenanceEllen H. Johnson [1910-1992], Oberlin, OH; by bequest 1998 to Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OHExhibition History
Changing Visions of the North American Landscape
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (October 24, 2000 - January 28, 2001 )
Collections
- Modern & Contemporary
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postmarked July 4, 1958
postmarked February 24, 1957