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I Stretched Forth My Hands

A work made of color aquatint and open bite etching on ivory wove paper.

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  • A work made of color aquatint and open bite etching on ivory wove paper.

Date:

1955

Artist:

John Talleur
American, born 1925

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

John Talleur

Title

I Stretched Forth My Hands

Place

United States (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.

1955

Medium

Color aquatint and open bite etching on ivory wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed and dated lower right, below plate, in graphite: "John Talleur '55"; inscribed lower left, below plate, in graphite: " I stretched forth my hands ...7/7"

Dimensions

Image/plate: 47.4 × 60.5 cm (18 11/16 × 23 7/8 in.); Sheet: 58.8 × 72.6 cm (23 3/16 × 28 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Joseph Fitzgerald

Reference Number

2015.368

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