Manhattan Landscape with Figures
1968
Painter, American, born Wales, 1916 - 2010
NGA, East Building, EU-406-D, E
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 203.2 × 121.92 cm (80 × 48 in.)
framed: 205.42 × 123.51 × 3.81 cm (80 7/8 × 48 5/8 × 1 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2018.114.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist; gift and partial purchase 1968 by R.V. Bendrat [b. 1923] and Holly Hemingway [b. 1944], New York; gift 2018 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1968
Sylvia Sleigh, Hemingway Galleries, New York, 1968, no. 20.
1974
Sylvia Sleigh, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, 1974, no. 10.
Bibliography
1968
Acconci, Vito H. "Sylvia Sleigh." Art News 67, no. 7 (November 1968): 77.
Benedikt, Michael. "In the Galleries: Sylvia Sleigh." Arts Magazine 43, no. 2 (November 1968): 56.
2014
Hottle, Andrew D. The Art of the Sister Chapel: Exemplary Women, Visionary Creators, and Feminist Collaboration. Farnham, England, and Burlington: 2014: 158-159, fig. 5.5.
Inscriptions
lower left: SILVIA SLEIGH 17-9-68
Wikidata ID
Q58700234