About the Artwork
Death and the Poet
ca. 1938
Erik Guil
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American
Unknown
Lithograph printed in color ink on wove paper
Image: 17 3/4 × 11 1/2 inches (45.1 × 29.2 cm) Sheet: 21 1/4 × 15 7/8 inches (54 × 40.3 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of the Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project
43.183
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, on stone, lower right: Erik Signed, in white ink, lower right: -Erik Guil \sic!
Inscribed, in white ink, lower left: Death and the Poet.
Drystamp, lower left: FEDERAL | ART | PROJECT Stamped, in black, verso: JUL 29 1938
Provenance
Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project;1943-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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All works created under the Federal Art Project (FAP) are in the public domain.
Erik Guil, Death and the Poet, ca. 1938, lithograph printed in color ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project, 43.183.
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