A nude male figure on a rock reaches upward toward a lightning bolt in a dark sky.

Prints

Prometheus

1931, published 1933

Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 5/8 × 4 3/8 in. (14.3 × 11.1 cm) Image: 3 15/16 × 2 3/4 in. (10 × 7 cm)
Accession number
96.68.179
Acquired
1996
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund
Reproduction credit
Rights courtesy of Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA, Rockwell Kent Collection, Bequest of Sally Kent Gorton. All rights reserved.
Edition
Ed. 170
Department
collection

About this work

Rockwell Kent, Prometheus, 1931, published 1933. Wood engraving, sheet: 5 5/8 × 4 3/8 in. (14.3 × 11.1 cm) Image: 3 15/16 × 2 3/4 in. (10 × 7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund 96.68.179. Rights courtesy of Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA, Rockwell Kent Collection, Bequest of Sally Kent Gorton. All rights reserved.

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