Barbara Swan - Two Solitudes

Two Solitudes

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Title:	Two Solitudes
Artist:	Swan, Barbara (Massachusetts, Born, 1922)
Date:	1966
Medium:	Original Lithograph
Publisher:	Wellesley College Friends of Art
Printer:	Impressions Workshop, Boston
Note:	Barbara Swan: A contemporary American painter and printmaker, Barbara Swan received her B.A. in Art History from Wellesley College (1943) and her M.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1948). Her first solo show took place in 1953 and since that time her paintings and prints have been exhibited at such major institutions as the Carnegie Institute, the Brooklyn Museum, the San Francisco Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the de Cordova Museum and at the University of Illinois. Barbara Swan has also taught painting and printmaking techniques at Wellesley College, Milton Academy and Boston University.
	Today the art of Barbara Swan is included in such Massachusetts collections as the Addison Gallery of American Art, Amherst College, Boston Public Library, Brandeis University, De Cordova Museum, Harvard University, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Wellesley College and Radcliff College, and in national collections such as, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
	A master of figurative subjects, much of Barbara Swan's oeuvre is dedicated to original printmaking. Two Solitudes was commissioned by Wellesley College, in 1966 and published in a limited edition of 450 signed and numbered impressions. This beautiful lithograph was inspired by a fragment from one of the poems of Rainer Maria Rilke; "Love ... consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." .
Edition:	Limited edition of four hundred and fifty impressions, numbered 112/450
Size:	11 X 14 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon smooth wove paper with the 'Basingwerk' watermark and with wide full margins as published in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1966. Signed by the artist in pencil and numbered, '112/450', along the lower margin. Containing very faint overall light toning, else a fine impression and in very good condition throughout. Two Solitudes represents a prime, original example of the lithographic art of Barbara Swan.
	The presentation literature for Two Solitudes from Wellesley College is included.
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