Object number2015.23.14

The Real Battle; The True Defense is Against the Forces of Hatred, Ignorance, Greed, and Poverty, sketch for mural, unrealized, War Department Building, Washington, D.C.

Date1941

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

CultureAmerican

MediumTempera and graphite on Masonite painted with gesso

DimensionsFramed: 17 x 48 in. (43.18 x 121.92 cm)
Image: 12 1/16 x 46 1/4 in. (30.64 x 117.48 cm)
Matted: 16 x 50 3/16 in. (40.64 x 127.48 cm)

Credit LineGift of Susan and Steven Hirsch, class of 1971

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

InscribedInscribed (verso): 66A

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.102-104, repr. p.102, no.45.ProvenanceRifkin Fine Arts

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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