About the Artwork
Migrating Geese
1916
Frank Weston Benson
1862-1951
American
Unknown
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)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
City of Detroit Purchase
19.156
Copyright Not Evaluated
Markings
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
Provenance
1919-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)For more information on provenance, please visit:
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Bulletin of the DIA 1, no. 8 (May 1920): p. 131 (ill.).
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Frank Weston Benson, Migrating Geese, 1916, drypoint printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 19.156.
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