Waiting for the Audition, c. 1950

Not on View

oil on canvas

overall: 76.2 × 61.6 cm (30 × 24 1/4 in.)

framed: 97.47 × 82.23 × 4.76 cm (38 3/8 × 32 3/8 × 1 7/8 in.)

2015.19.75

Raphael Soyer (painter) American, born Russia, 1899 - 1987

lower right: Raphael Soyer

Acquired March 1951 from the artist by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington;[1] acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The painting received the W.A. Clark First Prize at the 22nd Corcoran Biennial exhibition in 1951.

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Soyer, Raphael

1951: Circulating Corcoran Biennial Exhibition, American Federation of Arts touring exhibition, 19 October 1951 - 6 June 1952.

1951: Twenty-Second Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1 April - 13 May 1951.

1956: Art and the Theatre, Watkins Museum, American University, Washington, 8 April - 13 May 1956.

1957: Twenty-fifth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Toledo Museum of Art, 1957, no. 22.

1983: Jewish Life in America, Meridian House International, Washington, 13 June - 19 August 1983.

2004: Figuratively Speaking: The Human Form in American Art, 1770-1950, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 20 November 2004 - 7 August 2005, unpublished checklist.

2013: Recent Acquisitions: American Art from the Johns Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2013-2014.

1966: Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters born before 1850. Washington, 1966: 160-162.

1998: Simmons, Linda, et al. The Forty-fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907-1998. Exh. cat. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: 115.

2004: Baskind, Samantha. Raphael Soyer and the Search for Modern Jewish Art. Chapel Hill, NC, 2004: 125.

2011: Strong, Lisa. "Raphael Soyer, A Railroad Station Waiting Room." In Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Edited by Sarah Cash. Washington, 2011: 251, repro.