Edge of the Birches
1951 (published 1954)
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View on museum website →Medium
etching in brown on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 23.65 × 30.96 cm (9 5/16 × 12 3/16 in.) sheet: 32.86 × 40.48 cm (12 15/16 × 15 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)
Accession Number
2015.19.1296
About the Artist
Luigi Lucioni
Luigi Lucioni (1900–1988) was an Italian-born American painter celebrated for his luminous, meticulously rendered still lifes, landscapes, and portraits that brought a classical precision to the American realist tradition of the mid-twentieth century. Born in Malnate, near Varese in northern Italy, he emigrated to the United States as a child and was raised in New York. He studied at the Cooper Un...