Early Evening, ca. 1939

  • Emil Weddige, American, 1907-2001

Soft-ground etching and aquatint printed in black ink on wove paper

  • Plate: 10 3/8 × 13 7/8 inches (26.4 × 35.2 cm) Sheet: 11 1/2 × 16 inches (29.2 × 40.6 cm)

Etching Purchase Prize, Annual Exhibition for Michigan Artists, 1939-40, contributed by Hal H. Smith

40.39

Signed, in pencil, lower right: Emil Weddige

Watermark: BFK

Inscribed, in pencil following signature, lower right: 1/30 Inscribed, lower left: Early Evening

the artist, Emil, Weddige

1940-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Emil Weddige, Early Evening, ca. 1939, soft-ground etching and aquatint printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Etching Purchase Prize, Annual Exhibition for Michigan Artists, 1939-40, contributed by Hal H. Smith, 40.39.