The Myth of Oedipus

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Photo by John Bentham.
The Myth of Oedipus
Photo by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (American, born Switzerland, 1900 - 1962)
Date1944
MediumEtchings on handmade rag paper
DimensionsPlate (Each): 17 1/2 × 11 3/4 in. (44.5 × 29.8 cm) Sheet: 22 3/8 × 15 1/2 in. (56.8 × 39.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Montfort Dunn
Object number1992.45.1-6
Not on view
DescriptionPortfolio containing six etchings depicting scenes from The Myth of Oedipus: 1. The Sphinx 2. The Childhood of Oedipus 3. The Slaying of Laius 4. The Riddle 5. The Marriage 6. Oedipus at Colonus
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Published References Rainer Michael Mason. Kurt Seligmann: Oeuvre Gravé. Geneva: Éditions Du Tricorne, 1982, cat. no. 117, state 122.

Kurt Seligmann Graphics, 1942-1962. Springfield: Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, 1974, illus. 41.

Allan Frumkin and Helen Serger. Kurt Seligmann: His Graphic Work. New York: Allan Frumkin Gallery and La Boetie, 1973, p. 102.

Eleanor M. Garvey and Philip Hofer. The Artist & the Book, 1860-1960, in Western Europe and the United States. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1961, cat. no. 283, pp.192-193.
Signature 1992.45.1: Recto, lower right corner: "K. Seligman 1944"
Inscribed 1992.45.1: Recto, lower left corner: "#5"
1992.45.3: Verso, right: "No 31"
© Peter Haines. Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Peter Haines
Date: 1994
Medium: Layers of semi-opaque ink silkscreened onto acid-free rag vellum
Object number: 2025.9.7
(1) Salutation
Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Date: c. 1899
Medium: Albumen prints mounted on cardstock
Object number: S2023.1.21
(3) Sensation
Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Date: 1899
Medium: Albumen prints mounted on cardstock
Object number: S2023.1.22
(4) Revelation
Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Date: 1899
Medium: Albumen prints mounted on cardstock
Object number: S2023.1.23
(5) Tribulation
Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Date: 1899
Medium: Albumen prints mounted on cardstock
Object number: S2023.1.24
(4) Revelation
Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Date: 1899
Medium: Albumen prints mounted on cardstock
Object number: S2023.1.25
5519 (10) Alone at Last
International View Company
Date: 1902
Medium: Gelatin silver prints mounted on cardstock
Object number: S2023.1.35
Canal, Dordrecht (Holland)
Edith Loring Peirce Getchell
Date: 1884
Medium: Etchings on paper
Object number: 1990.20
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: 1937
Medium: Watercolor on paper, mounted on cardboard
Object number: 1996.10
Photo by John Bentham.
Albrecht Dürer
Date: 1515 (printed c. 1620)
Medium: Woodcut
Object number: 1994.62
© Raven Chacon. Image courtesy of Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts. For educational purposes…
Raven Chacon
Date: 2020
Medium: Lithograph
Object number: 2021.8.1.1
Photo by John Bentham.
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.123