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20th Century Painting

Launching the Boat
1930
20th Century
36 in. x 48 in. (91.44 cm x 121.92 cm)


Gifford Beal
(New York, NY, 1879 - 1956, New York, NY)
Primary


Medium and Support: Oil on Canvas
Credit Line: Purchase made possible by the Fine Arts Fund, 1932
Accession Number: M.1932.1.1


Bibliography: Object bibliography:
Schall, Ellen M., John Wilmerding and David M. Sokol. American Art: American Vision, Paintings from a Century of Collecting. Lynchburg, VA: Maier Museum of Art, 1990, pp. 50-51.

St. Gaudens, Homer. The American Artist and His Times. New York, 1941, p. 258.

Williams, Mary Frances. Catalogue of the Collection of American Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College: A Selection of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977, p. 42.

Artist bibliography:
Beal, Gifford. Gifford Beal, At the Water's Edge: Fishing Paintings from the 1920s and 1930s. New York: Kraushaar Galleries, 1999.  

Beal, Gifford. Gifford Beal, Picture-Maker. New York: Kraushaar Galleries, 1993.


Exhibition: "Paintings, " 21st  Annual Art Exhibition, R-MWC, March 18-April 16, 1932.

"Fifteen Paintings from the Collection of Randolph-Macon Woman's College," circulated by the R-MWC Alumnae Association to Nashville, Birmingham, Atlanta, and Asheville, October 10, 1949-January 31, 1950.

"American Art: American Vision, Paintings from a Century of Collecting," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, January 25-March 4, 1990; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, March 17-April 29, 1990; Tampa Museum of Art, May 14-July 8, 1990; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, November 24, 1992-January 17, 1993; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April 24-July 11, 1993.


Provenance: Kraushaar Galleries.
R-MWC Art Collection. Purchase from the above, 1932.

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  • Century:20th Century
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  • Painting:Oil
  • Subject Type:Landscape
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