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Expansion of the City, color sketch, unrealized, for Rincon Annex, Post Office, San Francisco, California
Expansion of the City, color sketch, unrealized, for Rincon Annex, Post Office, San Francisco, California
Object number2015.23.1.5

Expansion of the City, color sketch, unrealized, for Rincon Annex, Post Office, San Francisco, California

Date1941
Artist (American, born Russia, 1904-1979)
CultureAmerican
MediumTempera, watercolor, and graphite on Masonite painted with gesso
DimensionsComposition: 6 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. (17.15 x 19.05 cm)
Support: 10 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. (27.31 x 29.21 cm)
Credit LineGift of Susan and Steven Hirsch, class of 1971
On View
Not on view
Period20th c
Classification(s)
InscribedInscribed (recto): 20; Inscribed (verso): 3A
Markingsverso: estate stamp
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.52-53, repr. p.52, no.22. ProvenanceThe artist; estate of the artist; Susan and Steven Hirsch, New York, NY
Vassar Exhibitions
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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