Object number2015.23.1.20

Allies vs. Fascism, color sketch for mural War and Peace for Rincon Annex Post Office, San Francisco, California

Date1947

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

CultureAmerican

MediumTempera and watercolor on paperboard

DimensionsComposition: 10 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (25.72 x 25.72 cm)
Support: 13 3/4 x 14 1/16 in. (34.93 x 35.72 cm)

Credit LineGift of Susan and Steven Hirsch, class of 1971

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Painting

InscribedInscribed (verso): 28; 28C

BibliographyThesis in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Arts, Arizona State University, 1969, by Gladys M. Kunkel; Patricia E. Phagan, For the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s (Poughkeepsie, New York: Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 2007), exhibition catalogue, pp.7 (ill. fig. 7), 15 (checklist); 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.66-67, repr. p.66, no.31.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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