Girl on a High Chair
1960
Painter, American, 1885 - 1965
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas board
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Dr. Louis Wiener through the Friends of the Corcoran)
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Dimensions
overall: 60.96 × 50.8 cm (24 × 20 in.)
framed: 80.01 × 69.85 × 4.13 cm (31 1/2 × 27 1/2 × 1 5/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.132
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist [1885-1965]; his estate; (Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York); sold 1967 to Dr. Louis Wiener;[1] gift 16 October 1970 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] A letter dated 11 November 1970, from Grace Borgenicht Brandt to Martha Andrews of the Corcoran, provides the information about the artist's estate and the 1967 sale; in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1967
Norton Gallery of Art, Palm Beach, 1967.
Bibliography
1973
Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 2: Painters born from 1850 to 1910. Washington, 1973: 139-140, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: Milton Avery 1960
Wikidata ID
Q46636863