Auvers-sur-Oise (Crow in the Wheatfield), 1981

Not on View

Medium

acrylic on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 213.36 × 182.88 cm (84 × 72 in.)

framed: 215.9 × 184.79 × 5.72 cm (85 × 72 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art)

Accession Number

2014.136.152

Artists / Makers

Robert Colescott (painter) American, 1925 - 2009

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Inscription

upper left center: R. Colescott 81

Provenance

(Semaphore Gallery, New York), in 1983.[1] Morton J. [1921-1988] and Lita [1927-2000, née Rothbard] Hornick, New York, by 1985;[2] purchased 5 June 1991 through (Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York) by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The gallery lent the painting to the 1983 Whitney Museum of American Art biennial exhibition in New York.

[2] The Hornicks are listed as the owners of the painting in a 1985 exhibition catalogue.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Daniel Newburg Gallery
Hornick, Morton J. and Lita
Semaphore Gallery

Exhibition History

1983: Biennial Exhibition: Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Installations, Film, Video, Whitney Museum of American Art, March - May 1983, unnumbered catalogue.

1985: Robert Colescott: Another Judgment, Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Arts Center, Charlotte, 13 February - 7 April 1985, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

2008: The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, unpublished checklist.