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Migrating Geese, 1916

  • Frank Weston Benson, American, 1862-1951

Drypoint printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 19 7/8 × 7 7/8 inches (50.5 × 20 cm) Sheet: 15 1/2 × 12 1/4 inches (39.4 × 31.1 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

19.156

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed and dated, in plate, lower left corner: F.W.B. 1916 Signed, in pencil, lower left: Frank W Benson

Inscribed, in pencil, lower right: 24-R

1919-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bulletin of the DIA 1, 8 (1920): p. 131 (ill.).

Frank Weston Benson, Migrating Geese, 1916, drypoint printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 19.156.