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Abstraction

Abstraction, 1939

  • Edgar Louis Yaeger, American, 1904-1997

Paint on canvas

  • Overall: 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 61 cm)

Lillian Henkel Haass Purchase Prize, Annual Exhibition for Michigan Artists, 1939-40

40.36

Department

American Art before 1950

Details

Signed and dated, lower right: Edgar Yaeger 1939

1940-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Edgar Louis Yaeger, Abstraction, 1939, paint on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Lillian Henkel Haass Purchase Prize, Annual Exhibition for Michigan Artists, 1939-40, 40.36.

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