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The Vanishing Giant, Harry Sternberg, 1930 (published 1953)
Harry Sternberg, portraitHarry SternbergAmerican, 1904–2001

The Vanishing Giant

1930 (published 1953) · Print

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Where is “The Vanishing Giant” now? Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

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2015.19.1401

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TrainWorkersManCityscapeFigures

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PrintsEtchingModernism20th centuryAmerican

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“…Hundreds gathered for trip in white dresses carrying cloth bags, pails, candles—going to inaccessible & most venerable religious festival of Tres Reyes…Train started 7 A.M. with a hundred in a box car, people hanging on steps of platform even—engine went off tracks like some great sad silent dead horse of iron at noon, usual occurrence.” (See _Journals Early ‘Fifties Early ‘Sixties_ , N.Y., Grove, 1977, 1992, P.37.) Narrow-gauge railroad, Merida to Valladolid, Quintana Roo, Mexico, January 1954., Allen Ginsberg, 1954, printed later

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