Object number1997.18.4
Struggles between Pro Southerners and Pro Northerners during Civil War, New design for panel #21 (Cable Cars), pencil sketch for mural Slave Issue for Rincon Annex, Post Office, San Francisco, California
Date1947
Artist
Anton Refregier
(American, born Russia, 1904-1979)
MediumGraphite on thin cream wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 23 3/4 x 18 5/8 in. (60.33 x 47.31 cm)
Credit LineGift of Susan and Steven Hirsch, class of 1971
On View
Not on viewPeriod20th c
Classification(s)
Inscribed(recto, graphite): Struggles Between Pro Southerners and/Pro Northerners during Civil War; scale about 2" = 1'0"/New design for panel #21 (Cable Cars);
(recto, red stamp): SanFrancisco Calif./P.O. Rincon Annex
Markingsverso: estate stamp
ProvenanceThe artist; estate of the artist; Susan and Steven Hirsch, New York, NYVassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, NY, FLLAC, Vassar College, "For the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s." January 12-March 11, 2007.Poughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, "Celebrating Heroes: American Mural Studies of the 1930s and the 1940s from the Steven and Susan Hirsch Collection," September 2 - December 18, 2016.
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