Object number2015.23.8

Hempstead Settlers in 1640, sketch for mural, Post Office, Hempstead, New York

Date1936

Artist Peppino Gino Mangravite (American, b. Italy 1896-1978)

CultureAmerican

MediumOil, graphite, and gesso on cardboard mounted on wood

DimensionsSupport: 34 3/4 x 33 in. (88.27 x 83.82 cm)

Credit LineGift of Susan and Steven Hirsch, class of 1971

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Painting

Inscribed(recto, graphite): --Seabury/--Hempstead Parent-Teacher Association/George M. Estabrook/Mayor 1936/Mrs. Kenneth S Van de Water; (recto, in composition, paint): Mangravite

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.68-71, repr. p.68, no.32.ProvenanceThe artist; Rifkin Fine Arts; 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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