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Blue Curtain
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Blue Curtain

Maker (b. 1909, Waterbury, Connecticut – d. 2001, Chevy Chase, Maryland)
Date1979
MediumMonotype
Dimensionssheet: 30 7/8 in. x 22 7/8 in. (78.4 cm x 58.1 cm); image: 24 1/8 in. x 18 1/16 in. (61.3 cm x 45.9 cm)
ClassificationPRINTS
Credit LineMuseum purchase, The Nancy Gray Sherrill, Class of 1954, Collection Acquisition Fund
Object number2018.230
Status
Not on view
Image Not Available for Bright Afternoon
Jacob Kainen
Bright Afternoon
1978
Figurescape
Jacob Kainen
Figurescape
1946
Image Not Available for Rampant
Jacob Kainen
Rampant
1973
Untitled
Jacob Kainen
Untitled
Backstage Curtain Call
James McGarell
Backstage Curtain Call
1993
Image Not Available for Untitled (Great Blue Heron and other wading birds)
Jacob Henry Studer
Untitled (Great Blue Heron and other wading birds)
Crossings (No. 4, Blue)
Pat AdamsVermont Studio Center Press
Crossings (No. 4, Blue)
1999
Blues
Robert Colescott
Blues
1993
Image Not Available for Curtains of the Sky (illustration for "Beautiful on the Earth")
Margaret Erwin Schevill Link
Curtains of the Sky (illustration for "Beautiful on the Earth")
1947
Image Not Available for Ne humanis rationibus divina opera curiosius excutiamus sed ex operibus manuducti admiremur artificem. (Let us not investigate God’s works inquisitively using human reasoning; but, guided by the works, let us admire instead the artist.) Cervellum nobis frangunt gridando Cicadae: Vexat mastinos Musca tavana canes. (The cicadas shatter our brains with their chirping; a horsefly can harass blood-hounds [on the fly].), part III, plate 9, from "Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii"
possibly Jacob HoefnagelTheodor de Bry (and possibly workshop)after Joris Hoefnagel
Ne humanis rationibus divina opera curiosius excutiamus sed ex operibus manuducti admiremur artificem. (Let us not investigate God’s works inquisitively using human reasoning; but, guided by the works, let us admire instead the artist.) Cervellum nobis frangunt gridando Cicadae: Vexat mastinos Musca tavana canes. (The cicadas shatter our brains with their chirping; a horsefly can harass blood-hounds [on the fly].), part III, plate 9, from "Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii"
published 1592
Image Not Available for Golfer
Jacob Landau
Golfer
1965
Image Not Available for Octipedem ne excites. (Don’t wake an eight-foot [on the scorpion]) Scorpius irata tactus dat vulnera cauda. (When it is touched, the scorpion inflicts wounds with its irate tail.), part IV, plate 4, from "Archetypa Studiaque Patris Georgii Hoefnagelii"
possibly Jacob HoefnagelTheodor de Bry (and possibly workshop)after Joris Hoefnagel
Octipedem ne excites. (Don’t wake an eight-foot [on the scorpion]) Scorpius irata tactus dat vulnera cauda. (When it is touched, the scorpion inflicts wounds with its irate tail.), part IV, plate 4, from "Archetypa Studiaque Patris Georgii Hoefnagelii"
published 1592