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René Magritte, "Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do ingloriously...to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?" --John , ca. 1958, gouache on paper mounted on paperboard, sheet: 9 1⁄4 x 7 1⁄2 in. (23.4 x 19.0 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.195
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Artwork Details
- Title
- “Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do ingloriously…to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?” –John Milton, Areopagitica, 1644. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
- Artist
- Date
- ca. 1958
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 9 1⁄4 x 7 1⁄2 in. (23.4 x 19.0 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Container Corporation of America
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- gouache on paper mounted on paperboard
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Disaster — storm
- Disaster — shipwreck
- Figure male — waist length
- State of being — phenomenon — surreal
- Allegory — quality — truth
- Object — foodstuff — beverage
- Object — foodstuff — bread
- Object Number
- 1984.124.195