Midsummer Vermont
Asa Cheffetz, American, 1896 - 1965
1936
Wood engraving on wove paper
Edition of 200
Image: 4 3/4 × 6 1/4 in. (12.1 × 15.9 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 10 1/4 in. (24.2 × 26 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Appleton 1792 Memorial Fund
PR.936.5
Printer
Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Publisher
The Woodcut Society, Kansas City, Missouri
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Initialled, on block, lower right: AC; titled, in graphite, lower right margin: "Midsummer Vermont"; signed, in graphite, lower right margin: Asa Cheffetz-; reverse, stamped, in black ink, lower right: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE / LIBRARY
Exhibition History
Images of the Vermont Landscape 1776-1976, Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Vermont, July 15-October 15, 1976.
Looking for America: Prints of Rural Life from the 1930's and 1940's, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 3, 1994-March 5, 1995.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Looking for America: Prints of Rural Life from the 1930s and 1940s, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1994, no. 12, fig. 11.
Provenance
The Woodcut Society, Kansas City, Missouri; sold to present collection, 1936.
Catalogue Raisonne
Springfield cat. no. 53; J. Czestochowski, In James Swann, Cedar Rapids, 1990, App. C, no. 10.
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