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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Looking Backward
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Looking Backward

Artist Greta Matson (American, 1915 - 2004)
CultureAmerican
Date1925 - 1975
MediumDry brush | Pencil
DimensionsOverall: 20 1/4 x 16 1/4 in. (51.4 x 41.3 cm)
Overall, Mat: 26 x 20 3/4 in. (66 x 52.7 cm)
InscribedSigned lower left: "Greta Matson"
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number63.57.2
Not on view
DescriptionDry brush and pencil drawing.

Exhibition HistoryTraveled in Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition 1963-1965; Lent to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts for traveling from 1967 to 1971. Published References#76 in American Drawing Annual XX Catalog, January 1963 (illustrated).
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Greta Wilhelmina Matson
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Stow Wengenroth
ca. 1962
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Allan Jones Jr.
20th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Greta Wilhelmina Matson
May 8, 1947
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Greta Wilhelmina Matson
1940
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Alice Granbery Walter
1968
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Greta Matson
1954
Morning Paper
Greta Matson
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Greta Matson
1954
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Greta Matson
1954
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Allan Jones Jr.
mid 20th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Philip Kappel
ca. 1940