The Scream

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1895

Edvard Munch
Norwegian, 1863-1944

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Edvard Munch
Title: The Scream
Place: Norway (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1895
Medium: Lithograph in black ink on cream card
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "E Munch"; in stone, lower center: "Geschrei"; bottom right: "Ich fuhlte das grosse Geschrei durch die Natur"
Dimensions: Image: 35.5 × 25.3 cm (14 × 10 in.); Sheet: 51 × 38.5 cm (20 1/8 × 15 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1963.282
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Gustav Schiefler,Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs bis 1906 (Berlin, 1907), p. 49, no. 32.
Gustav Schiefler, Edvard Munchs graphische Kunst (Dresden, 1923), p. 20, no. 32, pl. 18.
Werner Timm, The Graphic Art of Edvard Munch, trans. by Ruth Michaelis-Jena with Patrick Murra (Greenwich, Conn., 1969), pp. 70 and 310, no. 28 (ill.).
Gerd Woll, Edvard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works (New York, 2001), p. 69, no. 38 (ill.).
The Pictoral World of the Child (Cambridge, 2005).

The Art Institute of Chicago, January 22-May 1, 1994.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety and Myth”, February 14-April 26, 2009, pp. 89, 93, fig. 94, cat. by Jay A. Clarke

Sold by Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1963.

Woll 38 B

Schiefler 32

Timm 28

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