Park Landscape, 1960

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 131.45 × 111.76 cm (51 3/4 × 44 in.)

framed: 133.99 × 113.03 × 4.45 cm (52 3/4 × 44 1/2 × 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Friends of the Corcoran Gallery of Art)

Accession Number

2015.19.90

Artists / Makers

James Weeks (painter) American, 1922 - 1998

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Inscription

on stretcher bar reverse: 52 1/2 x 44 1/2 Park Landscape James Weeks 1960

Provenance

(Poindexter Gallery, New York); purchased March 1961 by David Lloyd [1909-1990] and Carmen [1909-2003] Kreeger, Washington;[1] purchased December 1961 by the Friends of the Corcoran for presentation to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Eloise Pelton, Archivist at the Kreeger Museum in Washington, kindly provided information about the Kreeger's acquisition of the painting; see her e-mail of 5 June 2017 in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Kreeger, David Lloyd
Poindexter Gallery

Exhibition History

1963: Progress of an American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 25 October - 29 December 1963, unpublished checklist.

1966: Five Years: The Friends of the Corcoran, "The Contemporary Spirit," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 7-30 October 1966, unnumbered cat.

1967: California Arts Festival: US Museums Select California Art, Lytton Center of the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA, 1967, no. 69.

1970: Loan to display at The Chevy Chase Club, Chevy Chase, Maryland, May 1970 - July 1993.

1986: Friends of the Corcoran 25th Anniversary Exhibition: Selections from Acquisitions by the Friends of the Corcoran 1961-1985, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 14-30 March 1986, unnumbered checklist.

2007: Looking for the "There There": California Art from the Collection, 1950-2000, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007-2008.