Vanity Fair
Artist, American, 1884 - 1958
Artwork overview
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Medium
brush and black ink with watercolor and scratchwork on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Mrs. J.L.M. Curry)
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Dimensions
image: 37.47 × 30.32 cm (14 3/4 × 11 15/16 in.)
sheet: 40.96 × 31.91 cm (16 1/8 × 12 9/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.2696
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Graham Gallery, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1980
Guy Pene du Bois: Artist About Town, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1980-1981, p. 72, no. 26, repro
Bibliography
1983
Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 179, no. 1219.
Inscriptions
upper left in black ink: VANITY FAIR; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: PD-355; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 5317 / #400
Markings
embossed upper left: EXTRA SHAMROCK BRISTOL BOARD [circled] / A N C / NY
Wikidata ID
Q64572810