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A Dancer Before the Sheep
Irving Kriesberg
1950
Titles
A Dancer Before the Sheep (Proper)
Artist
Irving Kriesberg, American, 1919 - 2009
Medium
tempera on Masonite
Dimensions
41 1/8 × 48 in. (104.5 × 121.9 cm) frame: 45 1/4 × 53 3/4 × 1 7/8 in. (114.9 × 136.5 × 4.8 cm)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift, 2002.137
Work Type
painting
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Signature
Verso, upper half, in white paint: IRVING KRIESBERG
Inscription
Verso, upper half, in white paint: IRVING KRIESBERG / A DANCER BEFORE THE SHEEP
Provenance
(See Object File for information regarding Anonymous Collection); Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, 2002
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![**Obverse: All within decorative border, number "5" within shield at upper left and right corners; decorative panel at far left with number "12398" (vertically aligned and printed in red ink) / WESTERN BANK NOTE AND (long space) ENGRAVING CO. CHICAGO / CROSBY OPERA HOUSE ART ASS'N / THIS / CERTIFICATE / IN THE / [central image of Crosby Opera House] / AWARD / of / PREMIUMS / ENTITLES THE BEARER TO / ONE FINE STEEL ENGRAVING / UPON ITS SURRENDER. / Chicago . Ill. / 1866 / FIVE / DOLLARS / [mechanically printed signature] U. H. Crosby / MANAGER; faux watermark at left, printed in orange, within a decorative marquise-shaped border, INTERNAL * REVENUE / [bust portrait Abraham Lincoln looking right] / FIVE CENTS / 5
Reverse: Hand-cancelled in blue ink with oval-shaped stamp: ENGRAVING DELIVERED / CROSBY, A. A. NEW YORK. (around) / AUG / 9 / 1866 (center)](https://media.artsbma.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/11075144/SAN_VOL2BMA_Repositorydb_photod4749u108474902007132_01a_p01_o2-400x212.jpg "SAN_VOL2BMA_Repositorydb_photod4749u108474902007132_01a_p01_o2 | Birmingham Museum of Art")
