Cry

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Title Cry
Creator Edvard Munch
Creator Nationality Norwegian
Style Period 19th Century Painting
Description Munch's accompanying epigraph: "I stopped and leaned against the balustrade, almost dead with fatigue. Above the blue-black fjord hung the clouds, red as blood and tongues of fire. My friends had left me, and alone, trembling with anguish, I became aware of the vast, infinite cry of nature." Also known as "The Scream", originally titled "Despair"
Subject Symbolist
Creation Date 1893 CE
Form painting
Medium oil, pastel, and casein on cardboard
Dimensions 36 x 29"
Repository Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo (Norway)
Source Adams 2, II: 23.27; Gardner's 11, 29-45; Hartt 4, 34-18; Honour/Fleming 6, 17.27; Janson 6, 23-21; Stokstad 2, 27-79; Wilkins 3, 9-78; Slide Library 230 -Northern Europe
Work ID 2048
Rights Digital Image Copyright University of Utah
ARK ark:/87278/s6bg600q
Setname uu_aah_art
ID 28361
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bg600q
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