Seed and the Rock

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Seed and the Rock
Seed and the Rock
Artist/Maker (American, born Hungary, 1915 - 2001)
Publisher (active New York, c.1950 – c.1973)
Date1953
MediumEtching
DimensionsComposition: 17 1/2 × 13 7/8 in. (44.5 × 35.2 cm) Plate: 17 1/2 × 13 7/8 in. (44.5 × 35.2 cm) Sheet: 20 in. × 15 5/8 in. (50.8 × 39.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Elbert Lenrow, Class of 1923
Object number1984.264
Not on view
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Additional Details

Provenance 1984: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Elbert Lenrow;
1953 - 1984: Elbert Lenrow, by subscription to the International Graphic Arts Society, NY.
Signature Signed and dated "Peterdi '53" at lower right in pencil.
Inscribed Editioned in pencil at lower left: 22; inscribed in pencil at lower right: "Seed and the Rock"
The Power of Spring
The Power of Spring
Gabor Peterdi
Date: 1953
Medium: Etching and aquatint
Object number: 1984.263
In the Forest
In the Forest
Gabor Peterdi
Date: 1957
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1984.262
Spawning
Spawning
Gabor Peterdi
Date: 1952
Medium: Color etching, engraving and aquatint
Object number: 1984.265
Triumph of Stones
Triumph of Stones
Gabor Peterdi
Date: 1955
Medium: Color etching and aquatint on paper
Object number: 1984.266
Yosemite
Yosemite
Gabor Peterdi
Date: 1963
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1984.267
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by J…
Seed jar
Marie Z. Chino
Date: likely mid-1960s
Medium: Terracotta with paint
Object number: 2018.3.2
Basaltic Rocks, in Washilabou or Cumberland Valley, St. Vincent from "Scenery of the Windward and Leeward Islands"
Basaltic Rocks, in Washilabou or Cumberland Valley, St. Vincent from "Scenery of the Windward and Leeward Islands"
Lt. John Herbert Caddy
Date: published February 1, 1837
Medium: Hand-colored aquatint on paper
Object number: 1971.39.1
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
Rock abstraction (marbled white rocks in pebbles)
Larry Colwell
Date: c. 1960
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2020.9.49
Photo by John Bentham.
Man Sitting on a Rock Smoking a Nargileh
Riza-yi Abbasi
Date: early 17th century
Medium: Ink and gold leaf on paper
Object number: 1962.5
Below the Rocks
Below the Rocks
Riko Debenjak
Date: 1957
Medium: Color woodcut
Object number: 1984.96
Ocean landscape with rocks covered in seaweed, Chile
Ocean landscape with rocks covered in seaweed, Chile
Date: 1960
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.250
Photograph by John Bentham.
After giving a concert in a cotton field in Greenwood, Bob Dylan plays behind the SNCC office. Bernice Reagon, one of the original Freedom Singers and today leader of Sweet Honey in the Rock, listens. Mendy Sampstein sits behind Dylan and talks to Willie Blue
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.30