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Title: The Citadel
Date: 1940
Media: Drypoint
Edition size: 50
Signed in pencil, Gerry Peirce, lower right; titled, The Citadel, lower left.
Dimensions: Image: 7 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches (198 x 245 mm). Sheet: 11 x 16 1/8 inches (279 x 409 mm).
Excellent condition. Good margins. Illustrates Pusch Ridge at the most western end of the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, Arizona. One of Peirce's finest prints, deep and rich. Intense drypoint reworking with many desert landform features hidden in the dark foreground shading. Exhibited at the Society of American Etchers 25th Annual Exhibition, 1940.
In the American Print Collection of the Library of Congress.