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The Prints of Luis Quintanilla:
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Catalogue Entry #: 47
Title: Scarecrow*
Series: New York Prints


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Date: 1939**

Medium: Intaglio***

Edition: No precise edition number is known****

Dimensions: 13 1/4x 9 3/4 in. (33.7 x 24.8 cm.)

Printer: Currently Unknown (CU)

Paper: Wove (no watermark)

Signature: See below: ** and *****

Public collections holding this print: (CU)

Topic galleries for this print:
1. Animals (scenes featuring)

Notes

*Title: Of seven observed impressions, three are titled "Scarecrow" in the artist's hand, l.l. just below the plate mark. (See below.)

**Date: One of the seven impressions is annotated, in pencil in the artist's hand, "LQ 1939," l.l. just above the plate mark. This is the only known indication of date.

***Medium: The type of intaglio process (or processes) used is yet to be determined; however, drypoint is the medium Quintanilla worked in most commonly previous to the time of the making of this print and is present here, at least in part.

****Edition: Seven impressions have been observed, but none of them is numbered.

*****Signature: Three observed impressions are signed "Luis Quintanilla," l.r. just below the plate mark. (See below.).


Related Works: Works featuring animals, often ones in which animals are the sole subject, appear throughout Quintanilla's oeuvre. He executed a series of watercolors of animals in the late forties or early fifties from which the image below comes. (See The Art and World of Luis Quintanilla.)


Untitled [wolves hunting]
watercolor on paper, 22 x 15 in., (n.d.).

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