Object number2016.14

Finding Gold at Sutter's Mill, large color sketch for Rincon Annex Post Office, San Francisco, California

Date1947

Artist Anton Refregier (American, born Russia, 1904-1979)

CultureAmerican

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsImage: 31 1/4 x 27 5/8 in. (79.38 x 70.17 cm)
Framed: 32 3/4 x 28 7/8 in. (83.19 x 73.34 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): A. Refregier 1947; (verso, stretcher strip, black marker): "Finding Gold at Sutter's Mill"; (verso, black crayon): AR/112; (verso, label, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 10 W. 8th Street, New York City/Contemporary American Painting, Nov 13, 1948 - Jan 2, 1949): Anton Refregier/ACA-61 E 57 St, NYC/Discovery of Gold

Markingsverso: stretcher strip; label, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 10 W. 8th Street, New York City/Contemporary American Painting, Nov 13, 1948 - Jan 2, 1949

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.40-41, repr. p.40, no.11.ProvenanceThe artist; ACA Galleries, New York; Cohen-Fontaine Fine Arts Auctions, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 2001, no. 163, p.61 (ill.); Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, New York, Auction; 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 HistoryContemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY November 13, 1948 - January 2, 1949;

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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