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Carol Summers, "This liberty to discover and pursue a natural happiness, this liberty to grow wise and live in friendship with the gods and with one another, was the liberty vindicated at Thermopylae by martyrdom and at Salamis by victory."--George Santayana, , 1957-1958, color woodcut on paper mounted on paperboard, sheet: 15 1⁄8 x 12 1⁄2 in. (38.4 x 31.7 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.281
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Artwork Details
- Title
- “This liberty to discover and pursue a natural happiness, this liberty to grow wise and live in friendship with the gods and with one another, was the liberty vindicated at Thermopylae by martyrdom and at Salamis by victory.” – George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1925. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
- Artist
- Date
- 1957-1958
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 15 1⁄8 x 12 1⁄2 in. (38.4 x 31.7 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Container Corporation of America
- Mediums Description
- color woodcut on paper mounted on paperboard
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Landscape — weather — sun
- Fantasy — winged being
- Architecture — detail — column
- Allegory — other — liberation
- Architecture Exterior — classical — temple
- Object Number
- 1984.124.281