John Steuart Curry

Ajax
1932

A detailed black and white etching of a large, shaggy buffalo with two birds perched on its back. The buffalo is grazing in a grassy landscape with a sparse, cloud-filled sky above and a distant horizon line. The artwork is signed and dated in the lower right corner.

A detailed black and white etching of a large, shaggy buffalo with two birds perched on its back. The buffalo is grazing in a grassy landscape with a sparse, cloud-filled sky above and a distant horizon line. The artwork is signed and dated in the lower right corner.

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Date
1932

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 11 1/2 × 16in. (29.2 × 40.6 cm) Image: 9 7/8 × 13 3/4in. (25.1 × 34.9 cm)

Accession number
32.96

Edition
Ed. 50

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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John Steuart Curry
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