Object number2015.23.1.3

1870, Embarcadero, color sketch, unrealized, for Rincon Annex, Post Office, San Francisco, California

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

CultureAmerican

MediumTempera, watercolor, and graphite on Masonite painted with gesso

DimensionsComposition: 6 5/8 x 17 1/2 in. (16.83 x 44.45 cm)
Support: 10 11/16 x 21 7/16 in. (27.15 x 54.45 cm)

Credit LineGift of Susan and Steven Hirsch, class of 1971

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Painting

Inscribed(recto, graphite): 19; (verso, graphite): 17A; (verso, black marker): 17A

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.50-51, repr. p.50, no.20. 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

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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