Carroll Cloar

Old Letters
1940

A vintage monochromatic illustration featuring a portrait of a woman with an intense gaze, superimposed over a background of handwritten letters and envelopes. The letters, filled with cursive script, are layered and scattered, creating a textured collage, with one envelope clearly addressed to "Miss Elsa David." The woman is dressed in a dark, high-collared garment adorned with a brooch, and her hair is styled in a manner typical of the late 19th or early 20th century.
A vintage monochromatic illustration featuring a portrait of a woman with an intense gaze, superimposed over a background of handwritten letters and envelopes. The letters, filled with cursive script, are layered and scattered, creating a textured collage, with one envelope clearly addressed to "Miss Elsa David." The woman is dressed in a dark, high-collared garment adorned with a brooch, and her hair is styled in a manner typical of the late 19th or early 20th century.

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Date
1940

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 18 5/16 × 14 3/8in. (46.5 × 36.5 cm) Image: 14 1/16 × 10 3/4in. (35.7 × 27.3 cm)

Accession number
97.2

Edition
Edition unknown | Edition possibly 25

Publication
Printed by Will Barnet

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
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