Marvin Hayes Etching "No Greater Love," 1976

Item Details

Marvin Everett Hayes (American, born 1939)
No Greater Love, 1976
Etching on paper
Signed to the lower right margin
Numbered 26 of 100
Pulled from The Biblical Etchings of Marvin Hayes, 1976
Published by Oxmoor House, Inc., Birmingham
Printed by Emiliano Sorini (Italian-American, 1932 – 1999)
Title inscribed to the lower left margin
Printer’s blind stamp to the lower right corner of paper
Documents included

Born in 1939, Marvin Everett Hayes is an award-winning American painter, printmaker, and illustrator. Hayes is perhaps best known for his corporate illustration work, for which he was published in numerous national publications such as Esquire, Time, and Playboy. However, his greatest artistic achievement is widely considered to be God’s Images, a series of 53 copperplate etchings depicting biblical events and themes for which he collaborated with the novelist and poet James Dickey. Artwork by Marvin Hayes has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, and also belongs in the collection of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.

Condition

- light toning and faint accretions to print and paper; negligible creases and handling wear to paper at the edges of the sheet.

Dimensions

- measurements of sheet; plate measures 12.25" W x 11.25" H.

Item #

ITMGC50238