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Richard Seewald
The Red Sea1914

Not on view
Color woodcut print of a massive curling wave rendered in bold black lines with lavender and white fill, small figures tumbling in the surf below, and a distant horizon with a bare tree, riders, and a starburst sky

Richard Seewald, The Red Sea, 1914, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Richard Seewald
Title
The Red Sea
Place Made
Germany, Munich
Date Made
1914
Medium
Woodcut with pink, yellow, green, blue and purple watercolor on thin Japan paper
Dimensions
Image: 5 7/16 x 6 3/8 in. (13.81 x 16.19 cm); Sheet: 6 3/8 x 7 1/4 in. (16.19 x 18.42 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.288d
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.

  • Jentsch, Ralph. Richard Seewald: das graphische Werk. Esslingen: Verlag Kunstgalerie Esslingen, 1973.
  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.
Copyright
© Fondazione Richard e Uli Seewald, Ascona

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