Selective Attention
August Robert Birmelin, American, born 1933
1987
Color etching and aquatint on wove paper
A.P. 6/10
Plate: 21 1/2 × 29 15/16 in. (54.6 × 76 cm)
Sheet: 27 5/8 × 35 1/4 in. (70.2 × 89.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Varujan Boghosian
© A. Robert Birmelin
PR.2000.48.5
Portfolio / Series Title
Number 5 of 5 from Harsh Truths
Publisher
Novak Graphics, Toronto
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right: Robert BiRmelin; numbered, in graphite, lower left: A.P 6/10; inscribed, in graphite, lower center: Selective Attention | watermark: (top margin left and right of center; bottom margin left, center, and right) FA FABRIANO| Embossed, lower right: [printer's chop] [publisher's chop]| Stamped, on reverse, lower right corner: (within rectangle) [Ng logo] NOVAK GRAPHICS / 616 ST CLARENS AVE., / TORONTO, ONTARIO / MGH 3W9 530-4533 / [in graphite]E-101 | watermark: (top margin left and right of center; bottom margin left, center, and right) FA FABRIANO| Embossed, lower right: [printer's chop] [publisher's chop]| Stamped, on reverse, lower right corner: (within rectangle) [Ng logo] NOVAK GRAPHICS / 616 ST CLARENS AVE., / TORONTO, ONTARIO / MGH 3W9 530-4533 / [in graphite]E-101
Course History
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2013
SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, II, III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2013
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I-Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2014
SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, Printmaking II, Printmaking III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2014
Provenance
Varujan Boghosian, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2000.
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