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Wharton Esherick and the Birth of the American Modern

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Wharton Esherick sitting at his trestle table in his studio, photograph, circa 1931. Photo courtesy of the Wharton Esherick Museum.
Wharton Esherick sitting at his trestle table in his studio, photograph, circa 1931. Photo courtesy of the Wharton Esherick Museum.
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