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The Sucking Infant Lives to Die in Battle; The Weeping Mother Feeds Him for the Slaughter

Jacob Landau

Contemporary Art

ARTIST Jacob Landau, American, 1917–2001
MEDIUM Lithograph
DATES 1979
DIMENSIONS Sheet: 33 1/2 x 26 1/2 in. (85.1 x 67.3 cm) Image: 26 1/16 x 19 1/2 in. (66.2 x 49.5 cm)
SIGNATURE Signed lower right in pencil: "Jacob Landau"
INSCRIPTIONS Inscribed lower left to lower center in pencil: "The Sucking Infant Lives to Die in Battle; The Weeping Mother Feeds Him for the Slaughter"
COLLECTIONS Contemporary Art
ACCESSION NUMBER 2000.134
CREDIT LINE Gift of the Community Committee of the Brooklyn Museum
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
EDITION Edition: 198/210
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