Printing plate for "a, b, c"
Bernard Childs, American, 1910 - 1985
1960
Zinc, engraved and cut with power drills, burns, files, burnishers, scrapers, saws, sandpapers, emeries, hand burins
Overall: 9 11/16 × 9 13/16 in. (24.6 × 25 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Judith Childs in honor of Anne and Robert C. Simpson, Class of 1953, Thayer 1954, Tuck 1954
2007.85.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Titled and dated, in ink, on label affixed to reverse, center: "A. B. C." - 1960; inscribed, in ink, on label affixed to reverse, center: POWER DRY POINT / & BURIN ENGRAVING; inscribed, in ink, on label affixed to reverse, lower center: -THE HOOD MUSEUM / -ACHENBACH; inscribed, in ink, on label affixed to reverse, lower center: -BROOKLYN MUSEUM
Provenance
The artist; Judith Childs [his widow], New York, New York; given to present collection, 2007.
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