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Antonio Frasconi, artist
Uruguayan (born Argentina), 1919 -
Second illustration for the fable, The Caged Nightingale and the Intelligent Bat, in the book Twelve Fables of Aesop retold by Glenway Westcott ([New York: The Musem of Modern Art, 1954]), 1954
linoleum cut on Rives paper
Sheet: 267 x 197 mm (10 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.); Image: 100 x 150 mm (3 15/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
Gift ofGeorge Hopper Fitch 1986.1.144.8

author, Aesop~author, Glenway Wescott~printer, Joseph Blumenthal~publisher, Museum of Modern Art

Artist Biography: Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 28,1919. Parents had emigrated from Italy and family soon settled in Montevideo, Uruguay. Left Montevideo in April, 1945 to enroll at the Art Students League, New York.NY and live permanently in U.S.From 1973 on taught at SUNY, Purchase. Has lived in South Norwalk, Connecticut since 1957.