Tower of Babel A
1955
Artist, American, 1918 - 2011
Printer, American, 1897 - 1993
Artwork overview
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Medium
offset lithograph in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Lasky Charitable Lead Trust)
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Dimensions
image: 68.26 × 48.9 cm (26 7/8 × 19 1/4 in.)
sheet: 78.58 × 58.26 cm (30 15/16 × 22 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.3287
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Catalogue Raisonné
Conway 2007, no. 98
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Moses Lasky, San Francisco, California; Lasky Charitable Lead Trust, New York, 2002; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2004; acquired 2015 by National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Bibliography
1992
Gilmour, Pat. "A Love Affair with Lithography: The Prints of June Wayne." Print Quarterly 9, no. 2 (1992): no. 33.
2007
Conway, Robert P. June Wayne, the Art of Everything: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1936-2006. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2007, p. 112, no. 98.
Inscriptions
lower right on plate: June Wayne / August 55; lower left in graphite: 33/100 Tower of Babel A Fable Series June Wayne; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: ML 324 / B
Markings
embossed lower left: [June Wayne]; embossed lower left: [Lynton R. Kistler]
Watermarks
Old Stratford / U.S.A.
Wikidata ID
Q77010181