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Toward Abstraction

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Artist(s): Stanley William Hayter (Hackney, London, England, Dec 27, 1901 - May 4, 1988, Paris, France)
Title: Persistence of Life
Date: 1943
Dimensions: 7 15/16 in. x 9 1/2 in. (20.16 cm x 24.13 cm)
Medium: etching with painted mylar overlay on wove paper
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, museum purchase, 1946.118

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

American Abstraction at the Addison, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/18/1991 - 7/31/1991
American Abstraction from the Addison Gallery of American Art, American Federation of Arts, 2/27/1993 - 12/4/1994
Conversations: A Collection in Dialogue, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/7/2003 - 7/31/2003
Toward Abstraction, Addison Gallery of American Art, 12/23/2005 - 3/26/2006
The Discerning Eye: Five Perspectives on the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/4/2007 - 12/30/2007
Then and Now, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/10/2008 - 7/13/2008
Lines of Action: Selections from the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/28/2012 - 7/31/2012
Stone, Wood, Metal, Mesh: Prints and Printmaking, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/19/2013 - 3/17/2013
Natural Selections, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/14/2013 - 3/16/2014
Searching for the Real, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/30/2015 - 7/31/2015

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