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Details
- Dimensions
- 13.75ʺW × 0.01ʺD × 17.5ʺH
- Styles
- Modern
- Post Impressionist
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Art Subjects
- Nude
- Period
- 1960s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Etching
- Paper
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Design Modified, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Blue
- Condition Notes
- minor age-toning, rippling to paper; unframed; shows well. minor age-toning, rippling to paper; unframed; shows well. less
- Description
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Polychrome etching and sugar-lift aquatint.
Signed lower right, 'Ruth Weisberg' (American, born 1942) and dated 1967; additionally titled, lower center, … more Polychrome etching and sugar-lift aquatint.
Signed lower right, 'Ruth Weisberg' (American, born 1942) and dated 1967; additionally titled, lower center, 'Joseph Dreamed a Dream' and inscribed, lower left, with number and limitation, '18/20'.
Paper dimensions: 20 x 15.75 inches
Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California, this notable American woman painter and graphic artist is also former dean of the USC Roski School of Art and Design. Ruth Weisberg's work is influenced by her Jewish heritage and its traditions, the human body, and feminist themes. She works primarily in painting with recent work produced in scroll format.
Weisberg has over 70 solo exhibitions to her credit including at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA and the Skirball Museum, Los Angeles. Her work has also been shown nationally and internationally at over 190 group shows, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American Art.
The artist's work is held in over 60 museum collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, the Museum of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other national and international institutions. She received her BFA and MFA degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Weisberg has received several honors and awards for her work including the Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award 2009; a Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphic Council International 2015; the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 50th Anniversary Cultural Achievement Award 2011; an Honorary Doctorate, Hebrew Union College, 2001 and the College Art Association Distinguished Teaching of Art Award in 1999. less
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