An Architecture of Love
Katherine Porter, American, 1941 - 2024
2001
Oil on canvas
Overall: 51 × 71 1/2 in. (129.5 × 181.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Robert J. Strasenburgh, II 1942 Fund, the Claire and Richard P. Morse 1953 Fund, and the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
2014.5
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in red paint, on lower right front of canvas: Katherine Pavlis Porter; inscribed, in graphite on left edge of canvas: An Architecture of Love / 52 / x / 71 ½.
Course History
SART 31, SART 72, Painting II, III, Colleen Randall, Spring 2015
SART 25.01, Painting I, Enrico Riley, Winter 2020
SART 31/SART 72, Painting II/III, Colleen Randall, Spring 2022
Exhibition History
Contemporary Abstraction: Works from the Hood Museum of Art's Permanent Collection, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 4-March 13, 2016.
Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 24-May 5, 2014.
Provenance
The artist, Stanfordville, New York; sold to present collection, 2014.
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