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Black Owl Lobby

(American (born in Ukraine), 1898–1984)
about 1938
Medium/TechniqueLinocut
DimensionsBlock: 20.4 × 25.2 cm (8 1/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 31 × 38.8 cm (12 3/16 × 15 1/4 in.)
Credit LineThe John Axelrod Collection
Accession number2018.2279
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsIn graphite, below image: 1st State (5 Proofs) "Black Owl Lobby" Eli Jacobi; verso, l.l.: Catalogue #34
ProvenanceMary Ryan Gallery, New York (Eli Jacobi: Linoleum Block Prints, July 17–August 17, 1986, cat. 34); about 1986, sold to John Axelrod, Boston; 2018, gift of John Axelrod to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 26, 2018)
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