Object number2015.23.1.1

Raising of the Bear Flag, detail study for Rincon Annex, Post Office, San Francisco, California

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

CultureAmerican

MediumTempera and watercolor on composite board

DimensionsImage: 17 3/4 x 24 in. (45.09 x 60.96 cm)

Credit LineGift of Susan and Steven Hirsch, class of 1971

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Painting

Inscribed(verso, black marker): A. Refregier/Detail Study/For a Mural in/S.F. Post Office/San Francisco -- California/ 30; (verso, ink): Anton Refregier/Detail for mural -- "Raising of the Bear Flag"/one of 27 panels in new post office; (verso, Anton Refregier/Woodstock New York label): "Raising of the Bear Flag"/to be returned to:/ACA Gallery;

Markingsverso: Anton Refregier/Woodstock New York label verso: ole isolated man

BibliographyThesis in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Arts, Arizona State University, 1969, by Gladys M. Kunkel 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.38-39, repr. p.38, no.10. ; Josephine Bloodgood and Tom Wolf, The Maverick: Hervey White's Colony of the Arts (Woodstock, New York: Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, 2006), p.106 (fig.75), 5 August -5 November 2006; Patricia Phagan, "Curator's Choice," Art at Vassar (Fall 2015): 6.ProvenanceThe artist; estate of the artist; Morgan Anderson Consulting, New York; 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

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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