Object number2005.35.1

Gold Rush, competition sketch for Rincon Annex, Post Office, San Francisco, California

Date1941

Artist Anton Refregier (American, born Russia, 1904-1979)

CultureAmerican

MediumGraphite on thick cream wove paper

DimensionsComposition: 6 3/4 x 16 7/16 in. (17.15 x 41.75 cm)
Support: 10 3/4 x 20 1/2 in. (27.31 x 52.07 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): Gold Rush 13 #31

BibliographyFor 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.42-43, repr. p.42, no.12. ; 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, checklist p.15.ProvenanceThe artist; estate of the artist; Susan and Steven Hirsch, New York, NY

Vassar Exhibitions

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

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

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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