Object number2015.23.1.14
1846, California Becomes an Independent Republic, color sketch for Rincon Annex, Post Office, San Francisco, California
Artist
Anton Refregier
(American, born Russia, 1904-1979)
MediumTempera, watercolor, and graphite on Masonite painted with gesso
DimensionsComposition: 6 3/4 x 16 7/16 in. (17.15 x 41.75 cm)
Support: 10 3/4 x 20 3/8 in. (27.31 x 51.75 cm)
Support: 10 3/4 x 20 3/8 in. (27.31 x 51.75 cm)
Credit LineGift of Susan and Steven Hirsch, class of 1971
On View
Not on viewPeriod20th c
Classification(s)
Inscribed(recto, graphite): 10;
(verso, graphite): 16A
Markingsverso: two estate stamps
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.9. ProvenanceThe artist; estate of the artist; Susan and Steven Hirsch, New York, NYVassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, "Celebrating Heroes: American Mural Studies of the 1930s and the 1940s from the Steven and Susan Hirsch Collection," September 2 - December 18, 2016.
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