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Central Park, New York
Central Park, New York

Central Park, New York

Artist Stefan Hirsch American, born Germany, 1899–1964
Date1931
MediumTempera on Masonite panel
Dimensions44 1/2 x 57 in. (113 x 144.8 cm)
Frame: 45 1/2 x 58 1/4 x 1 1/8 in. (115.6 x 148 x 2.9 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Elsa Rogo Hirsch in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Justus Bier
Object numberG.65.32.1
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceCreated New York, 1931; collection of the artist; bequeathed to wife, Elsa Rogo Hirsch, New York, 1964; given to NCMA, 1965.
Published References“Mexican and Other Subjects by S. Hirsch,” New York Herald-Tribune, November 20, 1932.

“Acquisitions,” North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 9, nos. 1 and 2 (December 1969), listed 55 (as Skyline of New York).

Andrew Hemingway, The Mysticism of Money: Precisionist Painting and Machine Age America (Pittsburgh and New York: Periscope Publishing, 2013), briefly discussed 96–97, illus. (color) 98, fig. 55.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, The Downtown Gallery, “Stefan Hirsch,” November 8–December 9, 1932, no. 10 (as Central Park), illus. (b-w).

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Bard College, "Stefan Hirsch, 1899-1964: Retrospective Exhibition," September 9-27, 1971, cat.

Washington, DC, Phillips Collection, "Paintings by Stefan Hirsch," November 5-December 4, 1977.

Wilmington, NC, St. John's Museum of Art, "Inventing the American Landscape: A Dialogue with the Visual World," April 25-June 28, 1998; Hickory, NC, The Hickory Museum of Art, September 12-November 8, 1998; Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, November 22, 1998-January 17, 1999; Greenville, NC, Greenville Museum of Art, March 10-April 30, 1999, brochure (Outreach exhibition).
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