Early Grace Albee engraving, Breton Types, 1930.
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Wood engraving. Breton Types, 1930. Signed & dated in pencil lower right. Edition number '17/25', title & artist monogram in red ink, lower left. Matted. Unframed. Breton Types was exhibited at RISD Museum in 1931, the American Library in 1932 and Vose Gallery in Providence in 1934. A small edition of 25, a print of Breton Types is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Georgetown University & the National Museum of Women in the Arts in DC. Own a museum work! Frederick Sission, art critic of the Providence Journal praised the work in a 1931 review, "A small block called Breton Types was judged the most unusual of her prints. It is an unusual composition of three characterful peasant heads shown in relief against a silhouetted fishing boat. An angry black sky above suggest the unknown terrors of their hazardous occupation".
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Dimensions
2.25 x 3 in
Weight
1 lb
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Early Grace Albee engraving, Breton Types, 1930.
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