Ten Minute Break, 1944

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Medium

watercolor and gouache over graphite on flecked wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 39.21 × 57.94 cm (15 7/16 × 22 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Anonymous gift)

Accession Number

2015.19.542

Artists / Makers

Olin Dows (artist) American, 1904 - 1981

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Inscription

lower right in black colored pencil: Olin Dows. 44; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: Lt 5. 64. 45; center verso in graphite by unknown hand: WD-111; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: OK

Marks and Labels

embossed upper right: Dixon's / David Cox / Drawing; stamped lower right verso in purple ink: Reviewed and Passed / U.S. Army / 24 FEB 1944 / Press Censor / E.T.O. U.S.A.; stamped lower right verso in black ink: Property of War Dept / Rejected / by / War Dept Art Committee

Provenance

War Department, Washington, DC, 1944; the artist, Washington, DC, 1944; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1947; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Anonymous
Corcoran Gallery of Art

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. 199, no. 1340.