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Maker(s):Spruance, Benton
Culture:American (1904-1967)
Title:Curse God and Die
Date Made:1951
Type:Print
Materials:Color lithograph on paper
Place Made:North America; United States
Measurements:Mat: 24 in x 20 in; 61 cm x 50.8 cm; Sheet: 22 13/16 in x 15 15/16 in; 57.9 cm x 40.5 cm; Image: 18 5/8 in x 11 1/2 in; 47.3 cm x 29.2 cm
Narrative Inscription:  SIGNATURE/DATE: recto, lwr.r. (graphite): Spruance [i-p?]51; TITLE: recto, lwr.ctr. (graphite): "Curse God -and die"; INSCRIPTION: recto, lwr.l. (graphite): Ed 25
Accession Number:  MH 1951.75.I(b).RII
Credit Line:Gift of the Artist
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Book of Job Series; view of woman standing over a grotesque and warped figure lying on the ground, the woman is dressed in black shirt, red skirt, and white head scarf, she looks calmly down at creature covering its face with its hands, a winged creature with red skin watches from behind the woman, its brown wings extending to either side of the image, a ladder extends out of background picture plane on viewer's upper right

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