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Moonlight on the Cooper River, by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith

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Moonlight on the Cooper River, by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith

Moonlight on the Cooper River, ca. 1919
Alice Ravenel Huger Smith (American, 1876–1958)
Woodblock print; 15 1/8 x 7 inches (image), 15 7/16 x 8 1/8 inches (support), 17 3/16 x 10 1/16 (mounting)
Gibbes Museum of Art, Gift of the artist (1955.006.0010)
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