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Woman Bending over a Sick Child

Former TitleWoman and Child
Artist Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867 - 1945)
Dateearly 20th century
MediumBlack chalk, charcoal with white chalk highlights, black overpaint and graphite on laid paper
DimensionsPlate: 15 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (39.37 x 34.29 cm)
Sheet: 19 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches (50.165 x 41.275 cm)
Framed: 33 x 27 1/4 x 1 1/4 inches (83.82 x 69.215 x 3.175 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Laurence Sickman
Object numberF88-48/11
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

N/A

Provenance

Laurence Sickman (1907-1988), Kansas City, MO, by May 8, 1988;

Bequest of Laurence Sickman to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1988.

Published References

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 216, (repro.), as Woman Bending over a Sick Child.

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