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Maker(s):Spruance, Benton
Culture:American (1904-1967)
Title:Souvenir of Lidice
Date Made:1942
Type:Print
Materials:Lithograph
Place Made:North America; United States
Measurements:Sheet: 15 3/8 in x 21 9/16 in; 39.1 cm x 54.8 cm; Image: 12 1/2 in x 18 3/8 in; 31.7 cm x 46.7 cm
Narrative Inscription:  SIGNATURE/DATE: recto, lwr.r. (graphite): Benton Spruance 43-; TITLE: recto, lwr.ctr. (graphite): Souvenir of Lidio; INSCRIPTION: recto, lwr.l. (graphite): Ed 35
Accession Number:  MH 1973.239.I(b).RII
Credit Line:Gift of Winifred Glover Spruance (Class of 1925) (wife of the artist)
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Edition: 35; view of three men tied and staked to horizontal piece of wood with road sign, figures are dead or dying, man on viewer's left attached by rope around his torso, his left arm is slung across his body, his right arm draped over sign, his face looks out toward viewer, man in the middle attached by rope around his neck, his legs splayed out before him, his head hanging down by his side, third man is staked through his hands to horizontal rail and his eyes bleed

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wars

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