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Maker(s):Spruance, Benton
Culture:American (1904-1967)
Title:Jacob and the Angel
Date Made:1950
Type:Print
Materials:Color lithograph on paper
Place Made:North America; United States
Measurements:Sheet: 16 in x 22 13/16 in; 40.6 cm x 57.9 cm; Image: 14 9/16 in x 18 9/16 in; 37 cm x 47.1 cm
Narrative Inscription:  SIGNATURE/DATE: recto, lwr.r. (graphite): Spruance '50 WGS; SIGNATURE: recto, lwr.r. (stamp in red ink): BS; TITLE: recto, lwr.ctr. (graphite): -Jacob and the Angel-; INSCRIPTION: recto, lwr.l. (graphite): Ed 40
Accession Number:  MH 1973.258.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:
Part of Vanity II series- Vanity of Struggle; view of two male figures embracing and entwined in desert landscape, figure on viewer's left is green and has large white wings, figure on viewer's right is flesh-toned and doesn't have wings, their faces touch and appear to merge together, the barren landscape consists of brick red and dark blue with yellow jagged (lightening?) swaths of color

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