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From "To a Lotus"

Artist Robert Green (American, 1909 - 2007)
Printer The Lawrence Lithography Workshop (American, founded 1979)
Date1980
MediumLithograph on Rives BFK paper
DimensionsImage: 8 × 10 inches (20.32 × 25.4 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.94 × 35.56 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund and the Andrew Atterbury and Gwen Prentice Fund
Object number2024.9.36
Edition/State/ProofAP
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionA bold red dipping pen with a gold nib and dark blue end dom inates the foreground, balanced on the curling ledges of a large veined leaf that’s brown on the inside and yellwo-blue on the outside. A card with a blue bird on a branch above the pen. A small fish swimming to the left above the leaf. The leaf rests on a brown curving form in the lower left. Dark blue-green background.Provenance
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