Object number2015.23.9

View of College Hill, detail study for mural, View of Poughkeepsie in 1840, Post Office, Poughkeepsie, New York

Artist Georgina Klitgaard (American, 1893-1976)

CultureAmerican

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsImage: 10 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. (26.67 x 64.77 cm)

Credit LineGift of Susan and Steven Hirsch, class of 1971

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Painting

Inscribed(bottom stretcher, ink): Georgina Klitgaard

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.84-87, repr. p.84, no.37.ProvenanceEstate 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 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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