About the Artwork
Geese
1917
Frank Weston Benson
1862-1951
American
Unknown
Drypoint printed in black ink on japan paper
Plate: 10 × 15 1/8 inches (25.4 × 38.4 cm) Sheet: 12 5/8 × 17 7/8 inches (32.1 × 45.4 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
City of Detroit Purchase
19.168
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Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower left: Frank W Benson.
Inscribed, in pencil, lower right: 61 Inscribed, lower left corner: 123
Watermark: [leaf device]
Provenance
(Kennedy and Co., New York, New York, USA);1919-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 1, no. 8 (May 1920): 132.
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Frank Weston Benson, Geese, 1917, drypoint printed in black ink on japan paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 19.168.
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