Cocoanut Palm (Acapulco Girl)

Howard Norton Cook, American, 1901 - 1980

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1932

Wood engraving on paper

Sheet: 12 3/16 × 10 1/16 in. (31 × 25.6 cm)

Image: 10 1/16 × 8 in. (25.5 × 20.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Transferred from the Dartmouth College Library

2014.79.24

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in image, bottom right corner: COOK; titled, in graphite, lower left margin: ACAPULCO GIRL; inscribed, in graphite, lower center margin: For Rudolf Ruzicka; signed, in graphite, lower right margin: Howard Cook imp. 32; inscribed, in graphite, bottom of sheet: 1932 COCOANUT PALM – WOOD ENGRAVING – NOT FOR SALE 1st [st superscript] GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP, MEXICO

Provenance

Rudolph Ruzicka (1883-1978); given to the Dartmouth College Library, likely through the Estate of Tatiana Ruzicka (1915-1995) courtesy of Edward Connery Lathem (1926-2009); transferred to present collection.

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