Fifty-Seventh Street, NY

Artist Ernest Leonard Blumenschein American, 1874–1960

Date1917

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions14 x 14 in. (35.6 x 35.6 cm)
Frame: 19 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 1 3/4 in. (49.5 x 49.5 x 4.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

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

Object numberG.28.2.27

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ProvenanceCreated New York, 1917; collection of the artist; 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 ReferencesPeter J. Hassrick and Elizabeth J. Cunningham, et al, In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein (exhibition catalogue) (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), briefly discussed 105, illus. (color) 106.
Exhibition HistoryWilmington, 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).

The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM, "In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein," June 8-September 7, 2008; Denver, CO, Denver Art Museum, November 8, 2008-February 8, 2009; Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Art Museum, March 15-June 15, 2009, briefly discussed 105, illus (color) 106.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–January 21, 2025. Object Rights Statement

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