Mahonri M. Young

Pelicans
c. 1919

An etching of a pelican resting on the ground with its beak touching its chest, near a body of water with another pelican in the background. The artwork has a rough, sketch-like quality and is on textured paper with uneven edges. There is handwritten text at the bottom of the image.
An etching of a pelican resting on the ground with its beak touching its chest, near a body of water with another pelican in the background. The artwork has a rough, sketch-like quality and is on textured paper with uneven edges. There is handwritten text at the bottom of the image.

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Date
c. 1919

Classification
Prints

Medium
Etching

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 8 1/4 × 6 5/16in. (21 × 16 cm) Plate: 4 15/16 × 3 7/8in. (12.5 × 9.8 cm)

Accession number
31.942

Publication
Printed by Mahonri M. Young

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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