Object number2015.23.1.21

Sand Lot Riots, color sketch for Rincon Annex, Post Office, San Francisco, California

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

CultureAmerican

MediumTempera and watercolor on Masonite painted with gesso

DimensionsComposition: 13 7/8 x 13 7/8 in. (35.24 x 35.24 cm)
Support: 18 3/4 x 16 in. (47.63 x 40.64 cm)

Credit LineGift of Susan and Steven Hirsch, class of 1971

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Painting

Inscribed(verso, black marker): 36A (black marker over graphite): 22 [crossed through]

BibliographySan Francisco, Anton Refregier (New York: A.C.A Gallery, 1949), exhibition catalogue, checklist no.6; Thesis in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Arts, Arizona State University, 1969, by Gladys M. Kunkel; Persecution Chinese [?]: Anton Refregier Exhibition (Woodstock, New York: Fletcher Gallery, 1997), exhibition checklist no.33; 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.54-55, repr. p.54, no.23; Haskell, Barbara. Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945. New York, NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, and New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020, p. 143 reprProvenanceThe 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;

Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY, February 17, 2020 - January 31, 2021

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