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Benton Spruance

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Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York Cleveland Museum of Art

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Artworks (22)

The Sea - Galilee

1961 · Lithograph on white wove paper

Image-max: 36.5 × 45 cm (14 3/8 × 17 3/4 in.); Sheet: 76.5 × 56.6 cm (30 1/8 × 22 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Sea - Galilee

1961 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 24 5/8 × 17 15/16" (62.6 × 45.6 cm); sheet: 30 × 22 1/4" (76.2 × 56.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plough-land of Dream! Who Talks of Building?, from The Anabasis of St. John Perse

1957 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 38 × 53 cm (15 × 20 7/8 in.); Sheet: 45.7 × 61 cm (18 × 24 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

I Foretell You the Time of Great Blessing and the Bounty of the Evening, from The Anabasis of St. John Perse

1957 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 54 × 36.5 cm (21 5/16 × 14 3/8 in.); Sheet: 61 × 45 cm (24 1/16 × 17 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Shadow of a Great Bird Falls on My Face, from The Anabasis of St. John Perse

1957 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 57 × 36 cm (22 1/2 × 14 3/16 in.); Sheet: 61 × 45.5 cm (24 1/16 × 17 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Great Chargers of Gold Held Up by the Handmaidens Smote the Weariness of the Sands, from The Anabasis of St. John Perse

1957 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 38.5 × 53 cm (15 3/16 × 20 7/8 in.); Sheet: 45.5 × 61 cm (17 15/16 × 24 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Roads of the Earth We Follow You. Authority over All the Signs of the Earth, from The Anabasis of St. John Perse

1957 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 38.5 × 54 cm (15 3/16 × 21 5/16 in.); Sheet: 45.5 × 61 cm (17 15/16 × 24 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

On the Point of a Lance, Amongst Us, This Horse's Skull!, from The Anabasis of St. John Perse

1957 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 38.5 × 54 cm (15 3/16 × 21 5/16 in.); Sheet: 45.5 × 61 cm (17 15/16 × 24 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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