Triumph of the Whale
Date1966–1967
Artist
Benton Murdoch Spruance
(American painter, printmaker, architect, 1904–1967)
Illustration CitationMoby Dick, the Passion of Ahab: Twenty-Six Lithographs by Benton Spruance, with text by Lawrance Thompson (Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1967).
MediumThree-color lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 22 5/8 × 31 7/16 in. (57.5 × 79.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Paul Makler, 1971
Object number1971-168
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextBetween 1965 and 1967, Spruance produced a series of 26 lithographs inspired by Herman Melville's Moby Dick for an offset publication, Moby Dick: The Passion of Ahab, with text by Lawrance Thompson. Spruance printed alternate versions of the prints before the edition was run. Although planned in color, some prints were issued in greys only as the artist died before the project was completed.
