About the Artwork
The Forge
1932
Wanda Gag (Artist) American, 1893 - 1946 George C. Miller (Printer) American, 1894-1966
Lithograph in black ink on cream wove paper
Image: 11 1/2 × 13 3/4 inches (29.2 × 34.9 cm) Sheet: 14 1/8 × 16 1/8 inches (35.9 × 41 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Museum Purchase with funds from Robert and Lisa Katzman
2003.10
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Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower right: WANDA GA'G Signed, in pencil, lower left: Geo. C. Miller | Litho
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner of sheet: 11- 62 | BLACKSMITH TOOLS Inscribed, in pencil, upper left corner, verso: [ ? ] 72 [partly obscured by hinge]
Stamped, in black ink, upper left of image, verso: [ ? ]. E. Prasse | COLLECTION | PB 472 [the 472 is in pencil]
Provenance
(The Old Print Shop, Inc., New York, New York, USA)
2003-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Winnan, Audur H. Wanda Gag, A Catalogur Raisonne of the Prints. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1973.
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Wanda Gag, The Forge, 1932, lithograph in black ink on cream wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase with funds from Robert and Lisa Katzman, 2003.10.
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