Cool Comfort

Artist Corwin Knapp Linson American, 1864–1959

Datecirca 1926

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions14 x 14 in. (35.6 x 35.6 cm)
Frame: 15 3/4 x 15 1/2 x 1 in. (40 x 39.4 x 2.5 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object numberG.28.2.50

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ProvenanceCreated United States, ca. 1926; collection of the artist; [sale, Salmagundi Club, New York, January 24–February 5, 1926]; Robert Fulenwider Phifer (1849–1928), New York and Concord, NC; bequeathed to the NC State Art Society, Raleigh, NC, 1928; officially transferred by the Society to the NCMA, 1961.Published ReferencesAlexander W. Katlan, The Salmagundi Club Painting Exhibition Records 1889 to 1939 (New York: Salmagundi Club, 2008), listed 313.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Salmagundi Club, “Annual Exhibition and Auction Sale of Pictures,” January 24–February 5, 1926, no. 85.

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