Three Sisters

Artist Mabel Pugh American, 1891–1986

Date1939

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensionsoverall: 30 × 42 in. (76.2 × 106.7 cm)
frame: 34 1/4 × 46 1/8 × 1 3/4 in. (87 × 117.2 × 4.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the artist

Object numberLC.78.12.1

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ProvenanceCreated Raleigh, NC, 1939; collection of the artist; given to NCMA, 1978.Published ReferencesRobert Hobbs, Maud Gatewood: Re-visions (Greensboro: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994), illus. 17 (compared to Three Sisters, 1957-58, by Maud Gatewood).
Exhibition HistoryVanderbilt Gallery of Fine Arts Building, National Association of Women Painters, 1939.

Chapel Hill, NC, Third Annual N.C. Artists at Chapel Hill, 1940.

Winston-Salem, NC, Woman's Club Annual, 1941.

Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum (blue ribbon), 1941.

State Art Society Galleries in State Library Building (solo show), 1944.
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