Through the Brooklyn Bridge Cables

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Through the Brooklyn Bridge Cables
Through the Brooklyn Bridge Cables
Artist/Maker (American, born Ukraine, 1892 - 1973)
Date1938
MediumLithograph
DimensionsComposition: 9 5/8 × 12 3/4 in. (24.4 × 32.4 cm) Sheet: 11 7/8 × 15 7/8 in. (30.2 × 40.3 cm)
Credit LinePurchased by Elihu Root, Jr., Class of 1903, and Edward W. Root, Class of 1905, for the Hamilton College Picutre Rental Collection.
Object number1983.12
Not on view
Collections

Additional Details

Alternate Titles Bridge Repairs
Repairing Brooklyn Bridge
Exhibition History 2007-2008
Clinton, NY. Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "The Best Kind of Life: Edward W. Root as Teacher, Collector, and Naturalist," September 27, 2007 - January 6, 2008 (unnumbered cat., illus., 34).

2006
Clinton, NY. Fred L.Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "Works by WPA Artists from the Collection of the Emerson Gallery, "September 22-December 30, 2006 (cat. no. 8, illus., 11) [installed in conjunction with exhibition "WPA Artists: Prints from the Amity Art Foundation"].

2005
Clinton, NY. Fred L.Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "Hamilton Collects, A Century of Curiosities: The Story of the Hamilton College Collection," September 29 - December 30, 2005 (unnumbered cat., illus. 26).

1992
Clinton, NY. Fred L.Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "Highlights from the Hamilton College Collection," June 5 - September 6, 1992 (cat. 109).

Provenance May 1983: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by transfer from the Student Loan Collection;
by 1936: Hamilton College, by purchase and gift of Elihu Root, Jr. and Edward W. Root for the Root Picture Collection.
Published References THE BEST KIND OF LIFE: EDWARD W. ROOT AS TEACHER, COLLECTOR, AND NATURALIST (exh. cat. Clinton, Emerson Gallery, September 27-2007- January 6, 2008)

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE HAMILTON COLLEGE COLLECTION (exh. cat. Clinton, NY, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, 1992, cat. 109, page 14).
Signature Monogrammed in plate at lower right: LL [second L is inverted]; signed and dated in pencil at lower right: Louis Lozowick '38;
Inscribed Inscribed in pencil on verso at lower right: 190
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
Louis Lozowick
Date: 1929
Medium: Lithograph
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Date: 1951
Medium: Color woodcut
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Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Antoine-Louis Barye
Date: first cast 1857
Medium: Bronze
Object number: 1994.14
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
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Date: c. 1895 (first cast c. 1860)
Medium: Bronze
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Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
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Medium: Bronze
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Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Antoine-Louis Barye
Date: first cast c. 1874
Medium: Bronze
Object number: 1994.32