Thorn Cross

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Thorn Cross
Thorn Cross
Artist/Maker Graham Sutherland British, 1903 – 1980
Publisher Berggruen & Cie, Paris French, 1947 – 1980
Date1955
MediumColor lithograph
DimensionsComposition: 18 3/4 × 25 1/4 in. (47.6 × 64.1 cm) Sheet: 19 3/4 × 25 3/4 in. (50.2 × 65.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of William G. Roehrick, Class of 1934, H1971, in memory of Edward W. Root, Class of 1905
Object number1983.119
Not on view
Published ReferencesDavid Lewis, REBELS & ROMANTICS: SOME BRITISH MODERNS AND THEIR WORK (exhibition catalogue) (Clinton, NY: Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, 1992), checklist no. 66, illus. p. 6. [published as "Thorn Cross (Horizontal Thorn Cross)"]

Additional Details

Exhibition History 1992
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Rebels & Romantics: Some British Moderns and Their Work," June 6 - September 6, 1992 (cat. no. 55, illustrated p. 67) [exhibited as "Thorn Cross (Horizontal Thorn Cross)"];

1984
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Selections from the Hamilton College Collection, 20th Century," July 10 - September 4, 1984 [Removed before end of showing] (no cat.).
Provenance 1983: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of William G. Roehrick.
Published References David Lewis, REBELS & ROMANTICS: SOME BRITISH MODERNS AND THEIR WORK (exhibition catalogue) (Clinton, NY: Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, 1992), checklist no. 66, illus. p. 6. [published as "Thorn Cross (Horizontal Thorn Cross)"]
Signature Signed "Graham Sutherland" at lower right in pencil; "Sutherland Nov 10 195[ill.] [in reverse]" in stone at lower left.
Inscribed "64/100" at lower right in pencil.
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