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Artist/Maker
Raphael Soyer
(American, born Russia, 1899 - 1987)
Date1968
MediumLithograph
DimensionsImage: 25 5/8 × 22 3/8 in. (65.1 × 56.8 cm)
Sheet: 18 7/8 × 15 3/16 in. (47.9 × 38.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Peter Rose, Class of 1957
Object number2017.14
Not on view
DescriptionThis lithograph was made after a painting called "Street Scene" (1967), which also includes facades of buildings with advertisements on them, which aren't included in the related print. "In the 1960s, Raphael Soyer once again began to pursue his interest in the everyday world around him. He roamed the streets, making mental notes of people's gestures and moods. He would bring people into his studio to model for him, sometimes the very people he had observed in the street, trying to simulate what he had observed. "Since the city became less accessible, I decided to bring the city into my studio," he has said." (SOURCE: Frank Gettings, "Raphael Soyer: Sixty-five Years of Printmaking," Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1982.)
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Provenance
2017: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Peter Rose.
Signature
Signed "Raphael Soyer" at lower right in graphite.
Inscribed
"25/200" at lower left in graphite.
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