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Maker(s):Pins, Jacob
Culture:Israeli, born Germany, (1917-2005 )
Title:Apocalypse Series: The Horse of the Plague
Date Made:1946
Type:Print
Materials:Woodcut
Measurements:sheet: 14 1/8 in x 18 3/8 in; 35.8775 cm x 46.6725 cm; image: 13 3/8 in x 16 15/16 in; 33.9725 cm x 43.02125 cm
Narrative Inscription:  SIGNATURE/DATE: recto, lwr. l. (pencil): Pins 1946 ; INSCRIPTION: recto, lwr. r. (pencil): 1946 [ill.] ; recto, lwr. l. (pencil): H 82
Accession Number:  MH 1991.4.650.2
Credit Line:Bequest of Helene Brosseau Black (Class of 1931)
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
A flying horse with rays or fire coming out of its nose looks down on a prone man. A nude woman lies on the ground to the left. Two vultures/birds circle above the man in the upper right. apocalypse; biblical; death; disease; plague

Tags:
prints; abstract; black and white; mythology; bodies; deaths; apocalypse; nudes

Subjects:
Mythology; nudes (representations); Prints; Art, Abstract; black-and-white (colors); bodies (animal components); Death; Wood-engraving

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