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Abraham Rattner, "The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out."--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, 1870. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man., 1958, gouache and pencil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.245
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“The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, 1870. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
- Artist
- Date
- 1958
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 30 3⁄8 x 11 1⁄2 in. (77.2 x 29.2 cm)
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Container Corporation of America
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- gouache and pencil on paperboard
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Figure male – head
- Abstract
- Object Number
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1984.124.245
- Palette
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- Linked Open Data URI
