Henry Billings

Machines and Men
1931

A black and white lithograph by M.C. Escher titled "Eye" from 1946, depicting a highly detailed, surrealistic scene where a man is operating a complex machine with gears and mechanical parts, all within an abstract, geometric space.

A black and white lithograph by M.C. Escher titled "Eye" from 1946, depicting a highly detailed, surrealistic scene where a man is operating a complex machine with gears and mechanical parts, all within an abstract, geometric space.

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Date
1931

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 16 × 19 1/2in. (40.6 × 49.5 cm) Image: 13 5/8 × 15 13/16in. (34.6 × 40.2 cm)

Accession number
79.62

Series
Machines and Men

Edition
Ed. 20

Publication
Printed by George C. Miller

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

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/3150

Exhibitions

Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900–1960

Apr 28, 2017–June 2, 2019

Henry Billings
7 works in the collection

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