Prologue to Troy
Romare Howard Bearden, American, 1911 - 1988
1974
Screenprint on wove paper
Edition 17/100
Sheet: 40 1/8 × 32 1/4 in. (101.9 × 81.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William S. Rubin Fund
Art © Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
PR.975.58.4
Portfolio / Series Title
Prevalence of Ritual
Printer
Sirocco Screenprinters, Inc., North Haven, Connecticut
Publisher
Cordier & Ekstrom & Ives-Sullivan, New York, New York
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Numbered, lower left, in graphite: P.R.IV 17/100; signed and dated, lower right, in graphite: Romare Bearden / 74
Course History
SART 31/SART 72, Painting II/III, Jennifer Caine, Winter 2020
AAAS 88.19, Contemporary African-American Artists, Michael Chaney, Summer 2021
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 44, Femme Fatales, Changing Conceptions of the Dangerous Female in the Male Imagination, Marissa Slany, Class of 2008, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 17-May 11, 2008.
Representing Myth: The Classical Tradition in Western Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-August 17, 1995.
Publication History
Marissa Slany, A Space for Dialogue 44, Femme Fatales, Changing Conceptions of the Dangerous Female in the Male Imagination, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2008, ill. p. 3.
Provenance
Cordier and Ekstrom, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1975.
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