Feeding the Chickens (Dorothy Feeding the Chickens)
Thomas Willoughby Nason, American, 1889 - 1971
1945
Engraving on wove paper
about 50
Image: 4 13/16 × 7 13/16 in. (12.2 × 19.8 cm)
Sheet: 7 11/16 × 10 3/4 in. (19.5 × 27.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Hersey Egginton in memory of her son, Everett Egginton, Class of 1921
PR.954.20.417
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in graphite, lower right margin: TWNason imp. 1945; inscribed, in graphite, lower left corner: Feeding the Chickens
Exhibition History
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, listed no. 44.
Provenance
Collected by Hersey Egginton (1875-1951); bequeathed to his wife, Mary E. (Benner) Egginton (1875-1962), Garden City, New York, 1951; given to present collection, 1954.
Catalogue Raisonne
F.A. Comstock and W.D. Fletcher, The Work of Thomas W. Nason, N.A., Boston, 1977, no. 379.
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