Elms by the Lake
1937 (published 1938)
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View on museum website →Medium
etching in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 19.69 × 27.62 cm (7 3/4 × 10 7/8 in.) sheet: 28.26 × 37.94 cm (11 1/8 × 14 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)
Accession Number
2015.19.1290
About the Artist
Luigi Lucioni
Luigi Lucioni (1900–1988) was an Italian-born American painter celebrated for his luminous, meticulously rendered still lifes, landscapes, and portraits that brought a classical precision to the American realist tradition of the mid-twentieth century. Born in Malnate, near Varese in northern Italy, he emigrated to the United States as a child and was raised in New York. He studied at the Cooper Un...