Object number2015.23.4.1

Head of Man, preparatory detail study for mural, unrealized, Post Office, Bridgeport, Ohio, 48 States Competition

Date1939

Artist Philo B. Ruggles (American, 1906-1988)

Artist John Ruggles (American, 1907-1991)

CultureAmerican

MediumGouache, watercolor, and graphite on beige Bainbridge illustration board

DimensionsImage: 24 x 23 13/16 in. (60.96 x 60.48 cm)
Matted: 26 3/16 x 25 5/8 in. (66.52 x 65.09 cm)

Credit LineGift of Susan and Steven Hirsch, class of 1971

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

BibliographyPhagan, 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.98-101, repr. p.98, no.44.ProvenanceEstate of Artist

Vassar Exhibitions

A Neoclassical Portrait of a Classicist: Houdon's Bust of Jean-Jacques Barthelemy

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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