Object number2015.23.12

Mural Sketch for Children's Room, Allegheny Library, color sketch for mural, Allegheny Library, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Artist Richard Crist (American, 1909 - 1985)

CultureAmerican

MediumTempera on cream wove paper

DimensionsComposition: 10 1/2 x 14 in. (26.67 x 35.56 cm)
Support: 12 x 18 in. (30.48 x 45.72 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, graphite):23 1/4" [with vertical arrow] Mural sketch for children's room. Allegheny Library (1/2" = 1") Richard Crist; (verso, graphite): 23 1/4

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.80-83, repr. p.80, no.36.ProvenanceThe artist; Fletcher Gallery Fine Arts, Woodstock, New York; 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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