National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: A Boy for Meg
  • Inscription
  • Provenance
  • Exhibition History
  • Bibliography

Overview

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Inscription

upper left reverse, on the fabric in black marker: ANDY WARHOL/62; upper left reverse, on the stretcher in black marker: ANDY WARHOL 62

Marks and Labels

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Provenance

Acquired 1962 from the artist by Burton G. [1902-1991] and Emily Hall [1908-1987] Tremaine, Madison, Connecticut; International Art Foundation, New York, by 1969; gift 1971 to NGA.[1]

[1] Provenance from 1981 letter to Warhol catalogue raisonné project from NGA's Department of Twentieth-Century Art.

Exhibition History

1967
Loan for display with permanent collection, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, 1967.
1969
Pop Art Redefined, Hayward Gallery, London, 1969, no. 148, pl. 83.
1971
Loan for display with permanent collection, Detroit Institute of Arts, at least 1971-1976.
1985
Loan for display with permanent collection, The Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, 1985-1987.
1987
Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, the '50s & '60s, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1987, fig. 114.
1989
Andy Warhol: A Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, 1989, no. 134, repro.
1994
Neo-Dada: Redefining Art, 1958-62, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Arizona; The Equitable Gallery, New York, 1994-1995, fig. 24 (not shown at last three venues).
1998
Andy Warhol: A Factory, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Kunsthalle Wien; Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, 1998-2000, no. 106, repro. (not shown at final three venues: Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao; Fundaçao Serralves, Porto; Guggenheim Museum, New York)
2007
Loan to Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of Andy Warhol's Death, The Andy Warhol Museum, 2007, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 373, repro.
1992
National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 271, repro.
2004
Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 454, no. 383, color repro.
2011
Rosenberg, Bonnie. "Andy Makes the News: Washington's Warhol Double Bill." The Art Newspaper 20, no. 227 (September 2011): 71, color repro.
2011
Suddath, Claire, Feifei Sun and Kayla Webley. "The Culture: Pop Chart." Time 178, no. 14: 55, color repro.

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