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1933

  • Work on this object began.

1943

  • Work on this object ended.

1960

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Drawing, Landscape with a Small River (the Somme)

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1938 and we acquired it in 1960. Its medium is black crayon on thin gray laid paper with deckled edge. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Its dimensions are

34.2 x 46 cm (13 7/16 x 18 1/8 in.), irregular

It is signed

Signed in black ink, lower right: Leon Dabo.

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower right: Somme; A and B inscribed in a circle and then in a square.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Landscape with a Small River (the Somme); USA; black crayon on thin gray laid paper with deckled edge; 34.2 x 46 cm (13 7/16 x 18 1/8 in.), irregular; 1960-239-9

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