Plate (folio 21 verso) from Viet Nam!
Catalogue
- Year
- 1967
- Dimensions
- page: 21 × 13 3/4" (53.3 × 35 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Antonio Frasconi
Artist
Printmaking
Antonio Frasconi was an American printmaker and illustrator known for his bold woodcut technique, which he deployed across fine art editions, children's books, and social commentary works from the 1940s onward. His stark, high-contrast compositions often depicted urban and rural scenes, animals, and figures rendered in a modernist vocabulary rooted in the traditions of German Expressionism and Mexican muralism. Frasconi's prolific output in color and black-and-white woodcuts established him as a central figure in postwar American printmaking.
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Basilica della Salute from the portfolio Views of Venice (Vedute di Venezia)
1969 · Woodcut tipped-in to folded sheet from a portfolio of ten woodcuts
Isola di San Giorgio from the portfolio Views of Venice (Vedute di Venezia)
1969 · Woodcut on folded sheet from a portfolio of ten woodcuts
Palazzo Ducale from the portfolio Views of Venice (Vedute di Venezia)
1969 · Woodcut tipped-in to folded sheet from a portfolio of ten woodcuts
Piazetta San Marco from the portfolio Views of Venice (Vedute di Venezia)
1969 · Woodcut tipped-in to folded sheet from a portfolio of ten woodcuts
Record
Verified by Watts Index- Artist
- Antonio Frasconi
- Year
- 1967
- Dimensions
- page: 21 × 13 3/4" (53.3 × 35 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1967-M013157
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified