Object number2015.23.15

Migration to Springfield, color study for mural, unrealized

Artist Jenne Magafan (American, 1916-1952)

CultureAmerican

MediumOil on Masonite painted with gesso

DimensionsComposition: 11 1/4 x 37 1/4 in. (28.58 x 94.62 cm)
Support: 15 1/8 x 41 1/4 in. (38.42 x 104.78 cm)

Credit LineGift of Susan and Steven Hirsch, class of 1971

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Painting

Inscribed(recto, in composition, oil): Jenne Magafan; (verso, ink): "Migration to Springfield"/(another hand) 11 1/8x 37 1/8. 1943; (verso, ink): Jenne Magafan/Woodstock, N.Y.; (verso, crayon): 1942; (verso, crayon): 79 1

BibliographyJenne Magafan (Albany, New York: Albany Institute of Art, 1954), exhibition catalogue, no.37; Painting America: Mural Art in the New Deal Era (New York: Midtown Galleries in association with Janet Marqusee Fine Arts, 1988), exhibition catalogue, ill. p.14; 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.72-75, repr. p.72, no.33.ProvenanceThe artist; Jenne Currie (Daughter of 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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