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Home > Art > Still Life: Pink Begonia

Still Life: Pink Begonia

Artist

Marsden Hartley

Date

1928-29

Medium

Oil on canvas

Object Type

Painting

Dimensions

H- 24 x W- 19 1/2 in. (61 x 50 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

United States

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, Promised gift to The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

2020.01.01

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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American Modernism oil painting
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The Artist;
Estate of The Artist, Inv. #193, c. 1944-1959;
[Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY, consigned by above, 1957];
Mr. & Mrs. William H. Bender, Jr., Bronxville, NY, purchased from above, 1958–1973;
Estate of William H. Bender, Jr., Bronxville, NY;
[Sotheby Parke-Bernet Inc., New York, NY, January 24-26, 1974, lot 610];
Private Collection, purchased from above sale, 1974-1980;
[Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, NY];
[Sotheby’s, New York, NY,  April 25, 1980, lot 225, consigned by above];
Private Collection, Pennsylvania, purchased from above sale, 1980-2006;
[Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY];
[Sotheby’s, New York, NY, May 24, 2006, lot 156];
Driscoll Babcock Galleries, New York, NY, purchased from above sale, 2006–2016;
[Bonhams, New York, NY, November 22, 2016, lot 87];
Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, purchased at above sale, 2016-2020;

New York, NY. Babcock Galleries. Davis, Dove, Hartley, Marin, Sheeler, May 1-July 11, 2007, no. 22.

New York, NY. Bruce Silverstein Gallery. Seven Americans: Demuth, Dove, Hartley, O’Keeffe, Marin, Stieglitz and Strand, September 6-October 2012.

Greenville, SC. Greenville County Museum of Art. Arlie Kuntz, Marsden Hartley and American Modernism, August 6-September 21, 2014.

New York, NY. Driscoll Babcock Galleries. Art is Long, Life is Short: Marsden Hartley and Charles Kuntz in Aix-en-Provence, January 15-March 7, 2015.

Santa Fe, NM. Owings Gallery on Palace. Gallery Selections Spring, March 30, 2020, ill.

G. Alan Chidsey. Volume of Photographs of Paintings, Pastels, Drawings and Lithographs by Marsden Hartley, compiled by the Hartley Estate, 1944–1960, G. Alan Chidsey Papers, N69-115, frames 27-403, Washington, D.C Archives of American Art, ill. no. 193.

Elizabeth McCausland Papers, Marsden Hartley Catalogue Raisonne Files, Box 14, Folder 50, Frame 10. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Elizabeth McCausland Papers, Marsden Hartley Catalogue Raisonne Files, Box 14, Folder 54, Frames 17-18. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Elizabeth McCausland Papers, Marsden Hartley Other Research Files, 1921-1962. Box 19, Folder 13, Frame 15.  Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Inc., New York. Estate of William H. Bender, Bronxville NY. January 24-26, 1974, lot 610, ill.

Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Inc., New York. American 19th & 20th Century Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, and Sculpture. April 25, 1980, lot 225, ill.

Ludington, Townsend, John Driscoll. Charles Philip Kuntz Marsden Hartley Arising and Converging in Aix. Angermeier, Paula. Greenville SC: Greenville County Museum of Art, 2014, pp. 17–20, ill. p. 91.

Unsigned. “Gallery Preview.” American Fine Art Magazine (March-April 2015), ill. cover and p. 75.

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