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Edwin Scharff
Sailboat1917

Not on view
Charcoal drawing with bold, gestural black strokes suggesting a standing figure with raised arm amid radiating diagonal marks on white paper

Edwin Scharff, Sailboat, 1917, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Edwin Scharff
Title
Sailboat
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1917
Medium
Lithograph on laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 10 x 6 11/16 in. (25.4 x 16.98 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
Accession Number
83.1.1328d
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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