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Artist/Maker
Kurt Seligmann
(American, born Switzerland, 1900 - 1962)
Printer
H.G. Kallweit
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
Collections
Additional Details
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.
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"
1992.45.3: Verso, right: "No 31"
Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Date: 1899
Medium: Albumen prints mounted on cardstock
Object number: S2023.1.25
Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Date: c. 1899
Medium: Albumen prints mounted on cardstock
Object number: S2023.1.21
Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Date: 1899
Medium: Albumen prints mounted on cardstock
Object number: S2023.1.22
Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Date: 1899
Medium: Albumen prints mounted on cardstock
Object number: S2023.1.23
Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Date: 1899
Medium: Albumen prints mounted on cardstock
Object number: S2023.1.24
International View Company
Date: 1902
Medium: Gelatin silver prints mounted on cardstock
Object number: S2023.1.35
Edith Loring Peirce Getchell
Date: 1884
Medium: Etchings on paper
Object number: 1990.20
Peter Haines
Date: 1994
Medium: Layers of semi-opaque ink silkscreened onto acid-free rag vellum
Object number: 2025.9.7
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.123
Rembrandt Harmensz Van Rijn
Date: c. 1652
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1984.22