Song of Sleep

Song of Sleep
Song of Sleep

Song of Sleep

Date1919
Artist (American painter and printmaker, 1862–1928)
Artist (American etcher and engraver, 1876–1925)
MediumSoft ground etching with aquatint
Dimensionsplate: 4 1/4 × 10 1/4 in. (10.8 × 26 cm)
sheet: 11 1/8 × 15 in. (28.3 × 38.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1979
Object number1979-118
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextBest known as a painter, Arthur B. Davies was a prolific printmaker. After early experiments with printmaking in the 1890s, he focused on painting for two decades. Davies returned to printmaking around 1916, producing hundreds of compositions employing etching, drypoint, lithography, woodcut, and linoleum block printing.
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not dated
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not dated
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Arthur B. Davies
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1967
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