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John Sloan American
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Inspired by cliff dwellings in Buckman, New Mexico that looked like a prone dragon. This print was used as a Christmas greeting, see: Morse 1969, p. 230.
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Title: Dragon of the Rio Grande
Artist:
John Sloan (American, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania 1871–1951 Hanover, New Hampshire)
Date: 1922
Medium: Etching
Dimensions:
Plate: 2 3/16 × 5 3/16 in. (5.6 × 13.1 cm)
Sheet: 5 1/4 × 7 7/8 in. (13.3 × 20 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, 1926
Object Number: 26.30.74
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