Object number2014.46.1

View of Poughkeepsie in 1940, competition sketch for mural, unrealized, Post Office, Poughkeepsie, New York

Date1938/1939

Artist Arnold Blanch (American, 1896-1968)

CultureAmerican

MediumTempera and graphite on Masonite mounted on stretcher

DimensionsComposition: 9 x 35 in. (22.86 x 88.9 cm)
Support: 12 3/16 x 38 1/8 in. (30.9 x 96.84 cm)

Credit LineGift of Susan and Steven Hirsch, class of 1971

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Painting

Inscribed(recto, on label): 4; (verso, stretcher, graphite): Arnold Blanch/Woodstock/Ulster Country/N.Y. 2 pictures; (verso, stretcher, crayon): F.A. #4B

BibliographyPhagan, 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.90-91, repr. p.90, no.39. ; Painting America, Mural Art in the New Deal EraProvenanceThe artist; Janet Marqusee Fine Arts, New York; Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, NY; 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

A Neoclassical Portrait of a Classicist: Houdon's Bust of Jean-Jacques Barthelemy

Exhibition HistoryCelebrating 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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