Leaning Silo
1940
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View on museum website →Medium
etching in brown on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 18.4 x 26.6 cm (7 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.) sheet: 28.3 x 35.6 cm (11 1/8 x 14 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook
Accession Number
1987.41.42
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...