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Invocation

Artist Fred R. Archer (American, 1889 - 1963)
Dateca. 1917-1928
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 12 1/8 × 8 7/8 inches (30.8 × 22.54 cm)
Mount: 18 × 14 inches (45.72 × 35.56 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.665
SignedSigned on mount recto, lower right, in pencil: "Fred R Archer"; Signed on mount verso, upper left, in pencil: "Fred R Archer"
InscribedOn mount recto, lower left, in pencil: "Invocation."; On mount verso, upper left corner, in pencil: "Invocation / [signature] / 1239 So Point View / Los Angeles / Calif [underlined]"
MarkingsOn mount verso, bottom, in pencil: "388-6-00"
On View
Not on view
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DescriptionAbstract image composed of a dark background with numerous overlapping shapes in varying degrees of brightness.
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Mask [var. 4]
Fred R. Archer
ca. 1917-1928
2005.27.664
Mask [var. 3]
Fred R. Archer
ca. 1917-1928
2005.27.663
Mask [var. 2]
Fred R. Archer
ca. 1917-1928
2005.27.662
The Gargoyle
Fred R. Archer
1918
2005.27.661
Reflection of a Concave Mirror
Fred R. Archer
1924
2005.37.135
Mask
Fred R. Archer
ca. 1928
2005.27.3873
Imagination, Fear, Madness
Fred R. Dapprich
ca. 1930
2005.27.2619
Untitled
Herbert Matter
ca. 1945
2015.8.31
Men at Work, Pittsburgh
Charles K. Archer
ca. 1917
2005.27.3872
image overall
Carl Chiarenza
1991
2023.16.1
Species Identification 3
Thomas F. Barrow
1980
2014.57.6
Different Concepts 3
Thomas F. Barrow
1980
2014.57.2