About the Artwork
Hiroshima
1983
Jacob Lawrence (Artist) American, 1917-2000 Ben Shiff (Designer) American The Studio Heinrici, New York (Printer) American, active 1950 - present The Limited Editions Club, New York (Publisher) American, active 1950 - present John Hersey (Writer) American, 1914 - 1993 Robert Penn Warren (Writer) American, 1905 - 1989
Letterpress text and screenprints on white somerset paper bound within the book
Sheet: 12 1/2 × 9 1/4 inches (31.8 × 23.5 cm)
Artists Books
African American Art
Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund
2001.84
© 2005 Estate of Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Markings
Signed, in pencil on the colophon: John Hersey | Robert Penn Warren | Jacob Lawrence
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2001-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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© 2005 Estate of Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Jacob Lawrence; John Hersey; Robert Penn Warren; et al., Hiroshima, 1983, letterpress text and screenprints on white Somerset paper bound within the book. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund, 2001.84.
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