Circus, Brooksdale Park, Pasadena
Barse Miller, American, 1904 - 1973
1931
Transparent and opaque watercolor and charcoal on heavy [Arches] paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 15 1/16 × 22 7/16 in. (38.2 × 57 cm)
Frame: 23 1/2 × 30 1/4 in. (59.7 × 76.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Philip H. Greene, in memory of his wife and co-collector, Marjorie B. Greene
2007.6.8
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left: Barse Miller--; inscribed, on reverse, in graphite: Circus $100.00; inscribed in different hand on reverse, in ballpoint ink: Brookside Park- / Below Rose Bowl. / Pasadena. / 1930's [with strikethorugh] / 1931 WATERMARK: embossed, in oval: VERITABLE PAPIER D'ARCHES TORCHON
Exhibition History
Adventures in Aquarelle: The California Style in Review, 1930's-1980s, Cunningham Art Gallery, Bakersfield, CA, Sept. 7-Oct. 26, 1989. Brochure by Philip H. Greene and the Cunningham Art Gallery, printed by Occidental Oil and Gas Corporation, 1989.
Coastline to Skyline: The Philip H. Greene Gift of California Watercolors, 1930-1960, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 11, 2008-January 4, 2009.
Visions of California, The Irvine Museum, Irvine, CA, 1994.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Coastline to Skyline: The Philip H. Greene Gift of California Watercolors, 1930-1960, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, p. 36, no. 2.
The Philip H. Greene Collection of The California Style, Self Published, ca. 2000. (Titled as Circus, Brookdale Park, Pasadena).
Paul J. Karlstrom, The Philip H. Greene Gift of California Watercolors, American Art Review, Volume XX, Number 6, Leawood, Kansas: American Arts Media, Inc., November-December, 2008, ill. p. 126.
Provenance
Mrs. Barse Miller, Plandome Manor, New York; sold to Philip H. Greene (1925-2014), 1986; given to present collection, 2007.
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