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Dark Pool

Dark Pool

Public Domain

ArtistAmerican, 1862–1951
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Dark Pool
Date1920
PlaceUnited States
MediumDrypoint on paper
DimensionsPlate: 8 × 11 7/8 in. (20.3 × 30.2 cm)
 Sheet: 10 3/8 × 14 1/4in. (26.4 × 36.2cm)
 Frame (outer): 16 7/8 × 20 7/8 × 1 in. (42.9 × 53 × 2.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Marjorie G. Horning
Object number2011.1011
Not on view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in plate lower left: F. W. B. 1920
Signed below plate lower left in pencil: Frank W. Benson
Catalogue raisonnéPaff 189, Ordeman 189, Beall 45

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