Two Women with Musical Instruments

Artist Stanton Macdonald-Wright American, 1890–1973

Date1945

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions35 15/16 × 24 5/16 in. (91.3 × 61.8 cm)
Frame: 45 1/2 × 34 1/2 in. (115.6 × 87.6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineBequest of Fannie and Alan Leslie

Object number2006.21.9

On View

On view

ProvenanceJarvis Barlow, Pasadena, CA, 1945; The Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1946; private collection; Sale, New York, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, May 16, 1973, lot 68, illus. (b-w); Harry Litwin, Wichita, KS; with Litwin Gallery, Wichita; sold to Fannie and Alan Leslie, Palm Springs, CA, 1995; on extended loan to NCMA, 1997-2006; bequeathed to NCMA, 2006.Published ReferencesVirginia Stewart, "Southern California," Art News 45 (June 1946), 20-23, 59-61, illus. (b&w) 22 (as Two Women).

A Retrospective Showing of the Work of Stanton Macdonald-Wright (exhibition catalogue) (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1956), no. 37, illus. (b-w) 19

Will South, Stanton Macdonald-Wright (1890-1973): From Synchromism to the Federal Art Projects, Ph.D. diss., City University of New York, 1994, 270.

Will South, et al, Color, Myth, and Music: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2001), cat. no. 42, illus. (color), fig. 1Exhibition HistoryColorado Springs, CO, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, "New Accessions, USA," July 15-September 2, 1946, no. 36 (as Two Women), illus. (b-w).

Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum, "A Retrospective Showing of the Work of Stanton Macdonald-Wright," January 19-February 19, 1956, no. 37, illus. (b-w) 19

[New York, Dietrich Contemporary Art, 1995]

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Color, Myth, and Music: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism," March 4-July 3, 2001; Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 5-October 29, 2001; Houston, TX, Museum of Fine Arts, December 2, 2001-February 24, 2002, no. 42, illus. (color) fig. 109.

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