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Portfolio TitleKent Bicentennial Portfolio: Spirit of Independence
Artist Larry Rivers (American, 1923 - 2002)
Date1975
MediumColor lithograph and serigraph
DimensionsPlate: 21 × 35 3/4 inches (53.34 × 90.81 cm)
Sheet: 32 1/4 × 41 1/4 inches (81.92 × 104.78 cm)
Framed: 40 1/16 × 49 inches (101.76 × 124.46 cm)
Credit LineGift of Lorillard
Object numberF76-26/10
Signedb.r.: "107/125 Rivers '75"
Edition/State/Proof107/125
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionOn pale green ground, standing and seated figures with colored contours, identified in part as signers of Declaration of Independence by script signatures in corresponding colors written above heads and connected thereto by straight lines.
Copyright© Estate of Larry Rivers/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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