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Antonio Frasconi, artist
Uruguayan (born Argentina), 1919 -
Untitled(Thoreau in the woods )ninth plate in the book A Vision of Thoreau. With his 1849 essay: Civil Disobedience ([New York: Spiral Press, 1965]), 1965
woodcut on Goyu paper
Sheet: 185 x 133 mm (7 5/16 x 5 1/4 in.); Image: 175 x 110 mm (6 7/8 x 4 5/16 in.)
Gift of George Hopper Fitch 1986.1.163.11

author, Henry David Thoreau~printer, Spiral Press

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.

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