Big Inch

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Big Inch

1941

Rockwell Kent (American, 1882–1971) Printed by George C. Miller (American, 1894–1965) Commissioned by the United States Pipe and Foundry Company, Burlington, New Jersey

Kent created designs for corporate clients well into the 1940s. This lithograph, one of three, is from a series of six commissioned by the United States Pipe and Foundry Company of Burlington, New Jersey, and they depict the various uses of cast-iron pipe. Many thousands of reproductions of the prints appeared as inserts in trade newspapers in 1942. The Philadelphia Museum of Art collection includes one of only two known complete sets of the original lithographs.

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Object Details

Titles:

Big Inch

Date:

1941

Artists:

Rockwell Kent (American, 1882–1971) Printed by George C. Miller (American, 1894–1965) Commissioned by the United States Pipe and Foundry Company, Burlington, New Jersey

Medium:

Lithograph

Dimensions:

Image: 9 x 12 7/16 inches (22.9 x 31.6cm) Sheet: 12 1/2 x 16 5/8 inches (31.8 x 42.2cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1971

Accession Number:

1971-2-542

Geography:

Made in United States, North and Central America

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