Pastorale (Vermont)

Asa Cheffetz, Pastorale (Vermont), ca. 1943, wood engraving on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1976.76.4
Asa Cheffetz, Pastorale (Vermont), ca. 1943, wood engraving on paper, plate: 4 5⁄8 x 10 in. (11.6 x 25.4 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1976.76.4

Artwork Details

Title
Pastorale (Vermont)
Artist
Date
ca. 1943
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
plate: 4 5⁄8 x 10 in. (11.6 x 25.4 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Mediums Description
wood engraving on paper
Classifications
Subjects
  • Landscape — farm
  • Landscape — panorama
  • Landscape — lake
  • Landscape — Vermont
Object Number
1976.76.4
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1976.76.4

Works by this artist (1 item)

Edith Jaffy Kaplan, Political liberty does not consist in an unlimited freedom...we must have continually present to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would be no longer possessed of liberty, because all his fellow-citizens would have the same power.--Montesquieu on the Nature of Liberty. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man., 1951, brush and ink and gouache on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.137
Political liberty does not consist in an unlimited freedom…
Artist
Date1951
brush and ink and gouache on paper
Not on view

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