Object number2015.23.16

Matthew Vassar's Brewery, detail sketch for mural, unrealized, Post Office, Poughkeepsie, New York

Artist Judson Smith (American, 1880-1962)

CultureAmerican

MediumFabricated chalk and graphite on cream wove paper

DimensionsSheet: 9 5/16 x 12 3/8 in. (23.65 x 31.43 cm)

Credit LineGift of Susan and Steven Hirsch, class of 1971

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

InscribedInscribed (mount, verso): (illegible) Gall; 22 Inscribed (sheet, verso): Detail study for WPA mural for Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Post Office By my father, Judson Smith. Gretchen Smith Mount

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.88-89, repr. p.88, no.38.ProvenanceWoodstock Artist Association, Woodstock, New York; 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

Terms

Matthew Vassar

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