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Arthur Segal
The Plague1912

Not on view
Woodcut print in black and white showing a large winged creature with a coiled neck looming over small human figures lying and crouching among ruined block-like structures

Arthur Segal, The Plague, 1912, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Arthur Segal
Romania, Iasi, 1875-1944
Title
The Plague
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1912
Medium
Woodcut on heavy tan wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 13 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. (34.93 x 24.77 cm); Sheet: 25 1/16 x 18 1/2 in. (63.66 x 46.99 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.287.65
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

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