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Duck Movement (Primary Title)

Charles William Smith, American, 1893 - 1987 (Artist)

20th century
American
Works On Paper
Prints
color woodcut monoprint on Japanese paper
American Art
Sheet: 18 × 23 7/8 in. (45.72 × 60.64 cm)
Image: 16 × 20 in. (40.64 × 50.8 cm)
54.20.18
Not on view
"Block painting" is a technique developed by Charles Smith which combines oil painting and woodcut printing. See inscription for 54.20.1 for more information.
Unsigned
Inscribed in graphite lower right: 40.00. Inscribed in graphite lower left: 18. Printed on front of mat beneath image lower left: Duck Movement
John Barton Payne Fund
"Charles Smith's Zoo", Virginia Museum Traveling Exhibition, 1954- ca. 2008 (exact retirement date of statewide exhibition pending further research)
©artist or artist’s estate

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