Waterfront - New York, c. 1923

East Building, Ground Level - Gallery 106B

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 91.44 × 106.68 cm (36 × 42 in.)

framed: 107.32 × 122.56 × 6.35 cm (42 1/4 × 48 1/4 × 2 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.68

Artists / Makers

John R. Grabach (painter) American, 1886 - 1981

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Inscription

lower left: John R. Grabach

Provenance

Received 17 July 1941 from the artist by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, in exhange for his painting River Barges;[1] acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] River Barges was purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1930.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Grabach, John R.

Exhibition History

1980: John R. Grabach: Seventy Years an Artist, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 23 May - 17 August 1980, no. 6, repro.

1981: Of Time and Place: American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Cincinnati Art Museum; San Diego Museum of Art; University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga; Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Des Moines Art Center; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, 1981-1983, no. 40, repro.

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The Human Form in American Art, 1770-1950, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 20 November 2004 - 7 August 2005, unpublished checklist.

2013: American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 298, repro.