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Ancient Art
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Artist: Herbert J. Gute, American, 1908–1977
The Wilderness Encampment and the Miraculous Well of Be’er
1933–35
gouache on paper on board
187.3 × 269.2 cm (73 3/4 × 106 in.)
Commissioned by the University
1936.127.7
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
American
Period:
20th century
Classification:
Paintings
Bibliography:
Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, 2011), 340, no. 33, pl. 33.
Blair Fowlkes-Childs and Michael Seymour, The World Between Empires: Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019), 206–7, no. 147.
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