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Head Study

© The Estate of John Wilson

Head Study
Head Study
ArtistAmerican, 1922–2015
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Head Study
Date2002
MediumEtching, aquatint, lift ground, spit bite, drypoint, scraping and burnishing, printed chine collé, on wove paper, edition 23/50
DimensionsPlate: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Sheet: 29 × 22 1/4 in. (73.7 × 56.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment
Object number2025.714
Not on view

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Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist; [Center Street Studio, Milton, MA, 2002]; purchased by MFAH, 2025.
Exhibition Historynone for these impressions
Published References none for these impressions Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Editioned in graphite, below left bottom edge of plate: 23/50
Recto: Titled in graphite, below left bottom edge of plate: Head Study
Recto: Signed and dated in graphite, below right bottom edge of plate: Wilson 02
Recto: Embossed, bottom left corner of sheet: Center Street Studios chop mark

Watermark: Recto, lower right: BFK RIVES FRANCE ∞
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2016
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