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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2012.260
People
Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Title
Towards the Forest I
Other Titles
Alternate Title: To the Forest
Original Language Title: Mot Skogen I
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1897
Culture
Norwegian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/343025

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodcut printed in black, greenish gray, turquoise, and pale orange ink on cream wove paper, with dark blue crayon added to minimize the white outline of the man's head and torso
Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
image: 50 x 64.5 cm (19 11/16 x 25 3/8 in.)
sheet: 55.3 x 69.7 cm (21 3/4 x 27 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower margin below right portion of the image, graphite: Til Ravensberg i Erindring om / de sverige kampe 1909 E Munch / Skrivet pa Foshingen Kochs vei 21 Kobnhavn
  • inscription: lower margin below right corner of image: E Munch

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Kaare Berntsen Gallery, Oslo], sold; to Philip and Lynn Straus (1972-2012); Lynn Straus, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2012.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/iii
Standard Reference Number
Woll 112, Schiefler 100

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lynn G. Straus in memory of Philip A. Straus
Accession Year
2012
Object Number
2012.260
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Elizabeth Prelinger, Edvard Munch: Master Printmaker, exh. cat., W. W. Norton & Company and Busch-Reisinger Museum (New York and London, 1983), pl. 77
  • Elizabeth Prelinger, Guide to the Exhibition "Edvard Munch: Master Printmaker. Prints from The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection", brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1983), checklist

Exhibition History

  • Edvard Munch: Master Printmaker, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 10/06/1983 - 11/27/1983; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, 01/29/1984 - 03/25/1984

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