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Drawing, Allegory of the Four Seasons

This is a Drawing. It was created by Robert Frederick Blum. It is dated n.d. and we acquired it in 1904. Its medium is graphite on wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Henrietta Haller. It is credited Gift of Henrietta Haller.

Its dimensions are

11 × 16.6 cm (4 5/16 × 6 9/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamp in black, lower left, (Lugt 457c): Museum for the Arts of Decoration Cooper Union

It is inscribed

Numbered in graphite, upper left corner: (378); Inscribed in graphite, lower right (artist's hand): 4 panels representing the four seasons/ by Grecian figures./ Spring-- Awakening of the Year/ Girls with budding twigs Etc. musical/ instruments Etc./ Summer-- Long low composition of figures/ in grass-- reeds and goats./ Autumn -- gathering in of fruit Etc./ winter -- Almost black and white with Boreas/ somber yellows & browns – smoke

Cite this object as

Drawing, Allegory of the Four Seasons; Robert Frederick Blum (American, 1857–1903); USA; graphite on wove paper; 11 × 16.6 cm (4 5/16 × 6 9/16 in.); Gift of Henrietta Haller; 1904-16-367

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