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ALEXANDER LEYDENFROST (1888-1961)
THE HANFORD PLANT
signed a. Leydenfrost (lower right)
charcoal and tempera on paper
173⁄4 x 343⁄8 in. (45 x 87.3 cm.) (sight)
Executed circa 1950.
Provenance
Norman Brosterman (b. 1952), New York.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2001.
Literature
"The Atomic Bomb," Life, 27 February 1950, pp. 96-97, illustrated.
Norman Brosterman, Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future (New York, 2000), pp. 80-81, illustrated.
Exhibited
Tacoma, Washington, Washington State Historical Society, Out of Time: Designs for the 20th Century Future, 11 November 2000- 7 January 2001; also, Lansing, Michigan, Michigan Historical Museum, 27 January-25 March 2001; New York, New York Historical Society, 14 April-10 June 2001; Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming Art Museum, 30 June-26 August 2001; Fargo, North Dakota, Plains Art Museum, 1 December 2001-27 January 2002; Springfield, Massachusetts, 5 October-1 December 2002.
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