Object number1999.40

Farm at Harvesting Time, competition sketch for mural, unrealized, for Post Office, Delhi, New York, 48 States Competition

Date1939

Artist Andrée Ruellan (American, 1905-2006)

CultureAmerican

MediumOil over graphite on thick board painted with gesso

DimensionsSight: 15 1/2 x 39 1/2 in. (39.37 x 100.33 cm)

Credit LineGift of Susan and Steven Hirsch, class of 1971

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Painting

InscribedInscribed (verso, in pencil): Delhi, N.Y.

BibliographyPhagan, Patricia, "American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s" American Art Review, February 2007, p. 140For the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s, (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 2007) Phagan, Patricia. Celebrating Heroes: American Mural Studies of the 1930s and 1940s from the Steven and Susan Hirsch Collection. (Poughkeepsie: Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 2016), p.92-95, repr. p.92, no.40. ProvenanceFrom the artist

Vassar Exhibitions

For the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s

Celebrating Heroes: American Mural Studies of the 1930s and 1940s from the Steven and Susan Hirsch Collection

Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, NY, FLLAC, Vassar College, "For the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s." January 12-March 11, 2007; Donald D. Keyes, Andreé Ruellen, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, 30 January-21 March 1993; The Hyde Collection, Gibbs Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina, 27 June-22 August 1993, 15 September-31 Ocotber 1993, 23, no. 16.

Celebrating Heroes: American Mural Studies of the 1930s and the 1940s from the Steven and Susan Hirsch Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 2 - December 18, 2016; Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, March 5 - June 15, 2019

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