Oliver Wiswell
Grant DeVolson Wood, American, 1892 - 1942
1940
Oil on Masonite
Image: 9 7/16 × 11 in. (24 × 27.9 cm)
Frame: 16 1/4 × 17 1/2 in. (41.3 × 44.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Eileen P. Barber
P.997.46.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower left: GRANT / WOOD 1940
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.
Publication History
James M. Dennis, Grant Wood: A Study in American Art and Culture, New York: The Viking Press (A Studio Book), fig. 129, p. 136, discussed, p. 132.
Art in America, Advertisement for Estate of Kenneth Roberts' auction, July-August, 1967, p. 121.
Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell, New York: Doubleday & Co., book jacket illustration, 1940.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 94, no. 70.
Provenance
The artist, with Associated American Artists; purchased by Kenneth Roberts (1885-1957) in 1940 from Associated American Artists; purchased by Joseph and Eileen P. Barber, Biddeford, Maine from the Sale of the Estate of Kenneth Roberts, F.O. Bailey Company, Portland, Maine, July 18, 1967, lot 58.
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