Tanks, Standard Oil Company

1931

Alma Lavenson

Artist, American, 1897 - 1989

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Vision Gallery, San Francisco, CA); Private collection, Chicago, IL; (sale Sotheby's, New York, 26 April 1989, no. 257); Galerie zur Stockeregg, Zurich, Switzerland, 1989; (sale Christie's, New York, 4 October 1999, no. 37); purchased with donated funds from Marvin Breckinridge Patterson by NGA, 1999.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1931

  • Orange Camera Club, East Orange, New Jersey, 1931(?).

1933

  • Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, New York, February 1933.

Bibliography

1979

  • Alma Lavenson. Exh. cat. California Museum of Photography. Riverside, California, 1979: 19.

1990

  • Ehrens, Susan. Alma Lavenson: Photographs. Berkeley, California, 1990: pl. 40.

Inscriptions

all on mount: lower right in graphite: Alma R. Lavenson / 1931; all on verso: upper left: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences label; upper left: Orange Camera Club label; upper center: artist's label with black ink addition: Tanks-Standard Oil Co. / 1931

Wikidata ID

Q64073858

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