Object number2015.23.1.10

Spain Claims the Bay, competition sketch for Rincon Annex Post Office, San Francisco, California

Date1941

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

CultureAmerican

MediumTempera, watercolor, and graphite on thick, hard paperboard painted with gesso

DimensionsImage: 6 3/4 x 16 3/8 in. (17.15 x 41.59 cm)
Matted: 10 5/8 x 20 1/2 in. (26.99 x 52.07 cm)

Credit LineGift of Susan and Steven Hirsch, class of 1971

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Painting

Inscribed(recto, graphite): Spain Claimes [sic] the Bay (verso, graphite): #31 (verso, graphite): 12A

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.28-29 repr. p.28, no.2. ; Anton Refregier Exhibition, A.C.A. Gallery, New York, March 16-28, 1942, "Panel 4" (ill.)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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