Object number2015.23.7

Panorama of the Plains, color sketch for mural, Service Club No 2, Fort Warren, Wyoming, Quartermaster Replacement Training Center, Third Regiment

Date1942

Artist Edward Chávez (American, 1917 - 1995)

CultureAmerican

MediumTempera, graphite, and black ink on illustration board

DimensionsImage: 16 1/4 x 27 1/4 in. (41.28 x 69.22 cm)

Credit LineGift of Susan and Steven Hirsch, class of 1971

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

Inscribed(recto, ink):/SKETCH FOR MURAL --Scale 1/2"=1"/'PLAINS INDIANS"/Service Club-- FT.WARREN, WYOMING/ EDWARD CHAVEZ -- 1942; (recto, graphite): T/Sgt, Edward Chavez; (verso, ink): Panorama of the Plains/Mural Sketch for Service Club No 2/Scale 5/8"=1"

BibliographySoldier Art (Infantry Journal, Inc., 1945), ill.p.51; 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.76-79, repr. p.76, no.35.ProvenanceThe 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 History[Winners of the National Army Arts Contest], National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 4 - September 4, 1945

Celebrating 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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