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Object Record


Artist Prendergast, James Donald
Title Young American Artist
Date 1940
Year Range from 1940
Year Range to 1940
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions H-36.88 W-24.72 inches
Credit line Gift of C. Leonard Pfeiffer
ID# 1945.009.035
Object Name Painting
Provenance C. Leonard Pfeiffer; gift to UAMA, 1945.
Bibliography Art Digest, April, 1943. 5 ill.
Exhibition Catalogue: "Contemporary American Paintings from the Collection of the University of Arizona," New York: Metropolitan Museum, 1943, #50.
"The University of Arizona Collection of American Art," U of A, 1947, #81, ill.
"C. Leonard Pfeiffer Collection," U of A, 1961(?), cat. #80, page 94, ill.
Exhibitions History "Directions in American Painting," Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Oct 23-Dec 14, 1941;
"Third Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1942; "An Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings From the Collection of the University of Arizona," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, Apr 7-27, 1943, M.H. DeYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, Aug 1943, cat. #50;
"Hop, Skip and Jump," The Children's Museum of the Denver Art Museum, Fall 1954.
Tucson Art Center, AZ, Oct 2 1962- Feb 1, 1963.
Subjects Representational
Figures
Oil painting
Fences
Children
Children drawing & painting
Balloons
Boys
Coats