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)

CultureAmerican

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 view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

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

BibliographyPhagan, Patricia, "American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s" American Art Review, February 2007, p. 142. For 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.58-59, repr. p.58, no.25. Patricia E. Phagan, For the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s (Poughkeepsie, New York: Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 2007), exhibition catalogue, pp.5 (ill. fig.4), 6, 15 (checklist).ProvenanceThe artist; estate of the artist; Susan and Steven Hirsch, New York, NY

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 HistoryFor the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 12 - March 11, 2007.

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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