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American Riding Act (Amerikanische Reitakt) from the series Circus (Zirkus)

American Riding Act (Amerikanische Reitakt) from the series Circus (Zirkus)

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Otto Dix

Artist
Otto Dix
(German, 1891 - 1969)
Title
American Riding Act (Amerikanische Reitakt) from the series Circus (Zirkus)
Date
1922
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
13 1/2 x 12 in. Overall
Credit
University Fund purchase
Accession No.
53.1.1
Classification
Prints
Geography
Germany

Related

5 January 1953, sold by Swetzoff Gallery (Boston, Massachusetts) to the University of Wisconsin-Madison; transferred to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Overland, Carlton. "The Modern Print in Germany 1881-1949." Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1987.
  • Penny, H. Glenn. "Kindred by Choice: Germans and American Indians Since 1800." Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013. p. 142, no. 15

  • Modern Print in Germany 1881-1949, The: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/18/1987–6/7/1987
  • Circus, The: Madison Art Center, 11/29/1970–1/14/1971

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