Three Men and a Dog
William Gropper, American, 1897 - 1977
about 1937
Oil on canvas
Overall: 16 × 26 1/4 in. (40.7 × 66.7 cm)
Frame: 22 × 31 1/2 in. (55.9 × 80 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of C. Morrison Fitch, Class of 1924
P.969.64.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left: Gropper
Course History
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
Exhibition History
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
American Paintings from the Dartmouth Collection, 1910-1960, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 17-April 12, 1998.
Curator's Choice: Dartmouth College Permanent Collection, Jaffe-Friede, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 29, 1976-January 16, 1977.
The Dartmouth Collection: 19th & 20th Century Paintings, Jaffe-Friede Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 17-November 6, 1982.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 96, no. 72.
Provenance
Collected by Coleman Morrison Fitch (1902-1969), New York; bequeathed by C. Morrison Fitch to present collection, 1969.
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