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Riot Scene, Civil War Days, color sketch for mural Slave Issue for Rincon Annex Post Office, San Francisco, California
Riot Scene, Civil War Days, color sketch for mural Slave Issue for Rincon Annex Post Office, San Francisco, California
Object number2000.37.2

Riot Scene, Civil War Days, color sketch for mural Slave Issue for Rincon Annex Post Office, San Francisco, California

Date1947
Artist (American, born Russia, 1904-1979)
MediumOil and tempera on Masonite
DimensionsImage: 23 3/4 x 17 3/4 in. (60.33 x 45.09 cm)
Credit LineGift of Susan and Steven Hirsch, class of 1971
On View
Not on view
Period20th c
Classification(s)
Inscribed(verso, marker): A. Refregier/study for/a panel on/"Slave Issue"/San Francisco/Post Offis/ Rucy_____________/32; (verso, graphite): "Slave Issue"/AR/107; (verso, graphite):__8
BibliographyNobuyuki, Okabe, "Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College," (Japan: Yamagata Museum of Art) Cat. no. 41, p. 92 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.58-59, repr. p.58, no.26.; Magazine of Art (November 1941), clipping, WAAM; San Francisco, Anton Refregier, A.C.A. Gallery, New York, NY, 1949, exhibition catalogue, checklist no.8, The Slave Issue [?]ProvenanceThe artist; estate of the artist; Susan and Steven Hirsch, New York, NY
Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryJapan, Shimane Art Museum, "Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York," March 7 - May 11, 2008. Cat. no. 41, p 92.

Japan, Ishibashi Museum of Art, "Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York," May 17 - July 20, 2008. Cat. no. , p .

Japan, Yamagata Museum of Art, "Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York," July 30 - August 31, 2008. Cat. no. , p. .

Japan. Fuchu Art Museum, "Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York," September 6 - November 3, 2008. Cat. no. , p. .

Japan, Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, "Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York," November 14 - December 14, 2008. Cat. , p. .

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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