Lot 222
222
Sold by Order of the Trustees of THE HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN to Benefit Its Acquisitions Program
ROBERT GWATHMEY (1903-1988)

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ROBERT GWATHMEY (1903-1988)

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signed Gwathmey, l.r.--oil on canvas
15 x 10 in (38.1 x 25.4 cm.)
Provenance
Associated American Artists Galleries, New York and Chicago
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Literature
Piehl, Charles K., "The Southern Social Art of Robert Gwathmey," Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 73, 1985, pp. 59-60, fig. 5, illus.
Exhibited
Alexandria, Louisiana, The Alexandria Museum, Rhythm of Life: Gwathmey, Lawrence and Bearden, Jan.-March 1984. This exhibition travelled to Lafayette, Indiana, Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, April-June 1984.

Lot Essay

Painted in 1948

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