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City Lights
Artist
Fritz Eichenberg
(American, 1901 - 1990)
Date1934
MediumWood engraving
DimensionsSheet: 12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of J. Fred Beamer
Object number92.35
Collections
ClassificationsWork on Paper
Object NameEngraving
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
Not on viewCentury
- Twentieth
Signedbottom right in pencil: Fritz Eichenberg
Inscribedbottom left: City Lights / Ed. 200
Edition200
Exhibition HistoryAmerican Block and Burin: Wood Engravings from the Permanent Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, August 27 – December 8, 2013; American Printmakers, 1920-1945: Selections from the Palmer Museum of Art, The Museums at Stony Brook, February 5 - May 21, 2000 and Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL, September 5 - November 22, 2004; American Printmakers, 1920–1945, Palmer Museum of Art, January 13–June 14, 1998.ProvenanceJ. Fred Beamer, unknown method and date of acquisition.Published ReferencesFritz Eichenberg: Fifty Years of Wood Engraving (New York: Associated American Artists, 1977), n.p. (ill., no. 6).
Seymour Chwast and Steven Heller, eds., The Art of New York (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1983), 74 (ill.).
Ellen Ekedal and Susan Barnes Robinson, The Spirit of the City: American Urban Paintings, Prints, and Drawings, 1900–1952 (Los Angeles: Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, 1986), 22.