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Datenot dated
Artist
Marya Werten
(American illustrator, 1888–1949, born in Poland)
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 19 3/4 × 13 13/16 in. (50.2 × 35.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-572
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextMarya Werten was a painter, graphic artist, designer, and educator. She also illustrated books and created poster designs. Werten taught at the Warsaw Academy and a summer school at Zakopane in her native Poland. She toured America in 1932, givng lectures on the history and motifs of Polish folk art. She adapted these visual traditions in her own prints. A body of her work resides at the Polish Museum of America in Chicago.
Stanley Massey Arthurs
1896
