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Walter Friedrich Richard Jacob
Adam and Eve1920

Not on view
Woodcut or linocut print, two large abstracted standing figures rendered in stark black ink with white carved marks, dripping root-like lines descending to the lower edge

Walter Friedrich Richard Jacob, Adam and Eve, 1920, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by the Ducommun and Gross Acquisition Fund, and the Twentieth Century Art Acquisition Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Walter Friedrich Richard Jacob
Germany, 1893-1964
Title
Adam and Eve
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1920
Medium
Woodcut on laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 13 3/4 x 9 7/8 in. (34.93 x 25.08 cm); Sheet: 29 x 21 3/4 in. (73.66 x 55.25 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by the Ducommun and Gross Acquisition Fund, and the Twentieth Century Art Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
AC1992.238.32
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie et al., German Expressionism 1915-1925: The Second Generation. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.

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