Ruth Starr Rose

(Swing Low, Sweet Chariot)

1944

Winged horse pulls a red carriage through the sky as villagers on shore watch in alarm.
Winged horse pulls a red carriage through the sky as villagers on shore watch in alarm.

Ruth Starr Rose, (Swing Low, Sweet Chariot), 1944. Lithograph, sheet: 13 1/16 × 16 13/16 in. (33.2 × 42.7 cm) Image: 10 1/16 × 13 in. (25.6 × 33 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund 96.68.240

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Not on view

Date
1944

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 13 1/16 × 16 13/16 in. (33.2 × 42.7 cm) Image: 10 1/16 × 13 in. (25.6 × 33 cm)

Accession number
96.68.240

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

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