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Snap Dragons, 1985

  • William T. Williams, American, born 1942

Graphite pencil and acrylic wash on white wove paper

  • Sheet: 29 7/8 × 22 1/8 inches (75.9 × 56.2 cm)

Gift of Nettie Seabrooks

2009.21

Signed in pencil, lower right: [artist's monogram]

Watermark: C.M. Fabriano - 100/100 cotton

Inscribed, dated in pencil, verso, lower left: [artist's monogram] | 85 | SNAP-DRAGON (sic) In pencil, lower right: [artist's monogram] | 4.15.85

2009-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

William T. Williams, Snap Dragons, 1985, graphite pencil and acrylic wash on white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Nettie Seabrooks, 2009.21.