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Maurits Cornelis Escher, artist
Dutch, 1898 - 1972
Whirlpools, 1957
Color wood engraving and woodcut printed in red, gray, and black
43.8 x 23.5 cm (image); 54.1 x 31.4 cm (sheet)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts purchase 1966.80.38

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Artist Biography: Born 17 June1898 at Leeuwarden. Lived in Italy from 1923-1935, in Switzerland 1935-1937, in Brussels 1937-1941, l941-1972 in Baarn (Holland). Printmaker and illustrator. Died in Hilversum 27 March1972. ~~Reference: Locher, J. L., ed.: M.C. Escher, His Life and Complete Graphic Work (New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc. [1982], transl.from the Dutch (pub. Meulenoff &Co., Amsterdam , catalogue by F.H. Bool, J.L. Locher, and F. Wierda~