Wetland in the Forest

Artist Gabor Peterdi (American, born Hungary, 1915 - 2001)

Date1984

MediumEtching and aquatint on paper

DimensionsPlate: 29 9/16 × 39 5/8 inches (75.08 × 100.66 cm)
Sheet: 32 3/16 × 42 inches (81.76 × 106.68 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Richard M. Hollander

Object numberF93-7/1

Signedbottom margin, in pencil: "II Vers Wetland in the Forest. Peterdi 84 Imp."

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DescriptionPrinted in dark, bluish-black ink, densely filled view of water-engulfed woods extending to top. Foreground darkest expanse of reeds, cattails, and low marsh plants, beyond which, right to middle, more open clearing of flat, horizontally lined water. Middle to top, background zone of taller live and dying trees, two of the former thickly leaved, four of the latter, right to left, more sparsely foliated, revealing clearly their trunks and nude branches.

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