The Start of Day
Ilse Martha Bischoff, American, 1901 - 1990
about 1930
Woodcut on tissue paper
21/26
Image: 10 3/8 × 8 11/16 in. (26.3 × 22.1 cm)
Sheet: 15 1/4 × 10 7/16 in. (38.8 × 26.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist
PR.948.30.5
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Initialled, on block, lower left: I.M.B; inscribed, in graphite, lower left margin: The Start of Day - / 19 26/21; signed, in graphite, lower right margin: Ilse M Bischoff
Exhibition History
Virtual Space for Dialogue, 2018, The Labor of Art: from Sol LeWitt to the Guerrilla Girls, Kimberly Yu, Class of 2018, Homma Family Intern, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. https://www.kyu.vsfd.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/
Provenance
The artist, given to Dartmouth College through the Friends of the Dartmouth Library, 1948.
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