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Home > Art > Abstraction

Abstraction

Artist

Morton Livingston Schamberg

Date

c. 1916

Medium

Graphite and pastel on paper

Object Type

Work on Paper

Dimensions

H- 9 1/4 x W- 6 1/8 in. (23.5 x 15.6 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

United States

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

VF2016.03.15

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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Machine work on paper
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The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
Private Collection;
[Christie’s East, New York, NY, May 5, 1999, lot 147];
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM];
Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, New York, NY, 2009-2016;

Private Collection. Christie’s East. American Paintings and Sculpture. May 5, 1999, lot 147.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 100-101, 267, ill. p. 101.

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