About the Artwork
The First American Army
1932
Ralph Ludwig Boyer
1879-1952
American
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 9 7/8 × 14 7/8 inches (25.1 × 37.8 cm) Sheet: 14 5/8 × 19 5/8 inches (37.1 × 49.8 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie H. Green
61.333
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Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower right: RL Boyer
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: 8 The First American Army - | The First American Army
Watermark: [circular device and shield]
Provenance
1961-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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"20 Etchers Produce Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington." Art Digest, 7, 1 (October 1932): p. 20.
"Kennedy to Show the Bicentennial Etching Portfolio." Art News, 31 (October 1932): p. 3.
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Ralph Ludwig Boyer, The First American Army, 1932, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie H. Green, 61.333.
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