Armin Landeck

The Ancestral Home
1932

A black and white etching depicting a dilapidated two-story house with a chimney, surrounded by bare trees and overgrown shrubbery. The scene conveys a sense of abandonment and decay. There is a signature at the bottom right corner.
A black and white etching depicting a dilapidated two-story house with a chimney, surrounded by bare trees and overgrown shrubbery. The scene conveys a sense of abandonment and decay. There is a signature at the bottom right corner.

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Date
1932

Classification
Prints

Medium
Etching, drypoint, and stipple

Dimensions
Sheet: 10 7/16 × 11 1/16in. (26.5 × 28.1 cm) Plate: 7 11/16 × 8 7/16in. (19.5 × 21.4 cm)

Accession number
86.68.1

Edition
Few impressions | Incomplete edition 100

Publication
Printed by Armin Landeck

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Helen S. Tankersley

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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