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Benjamin Newton Messick

Blind Man, Shoeshine Boy, and Card player

Maker

Benjamin Newton Messick (American, 1901-1981), designer
Carl J. Winter, printer

Title

Blind Man, Shoeshine Boy, and Card player

Year

1940

Medium

  • lithograph

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • lithograph

Materials

lithograph

Supports

  • medium weight cream wove paper

Dimensions

41.9 x 34.3 cm (16 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Recto:signed in black crayon below image on right:Ben Messick; in pencil below image on right:PRINTED BY CARL J. WINTER. (CJW monogram)...#2In Plate--In LL:Ben Messick . 40

Marks: Watermark:FRANCE

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of the Fazzano Brothers

Object Number

84.198.449

Type

  • Prints

Publications

  • Books

Whistler to Weidenaar: American Prints 1870-1950

Gifts from the Fazzano brothers and other donors

Exhibition History

Early Modernism in America
Feb 24, 1995 – Apr 16, 1995
A Private Collection Goes Public
Prints from the Fazzano Brothers Gift
Sep 18, 1987 – Nov 08, 1987

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Benjamin Newton Messick (American, 1901-1981), designer
Carl J. Winter, printer
Blind Man, Shoeshine Boy, and Card player, 1940
lithograph
41.9 x 34.3 cm (16 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches) (plate)
Gift of the Fazzano Brothers 84.198.449

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