Golden Dawn

Artist Richard Pousette-Dart American, 1916–1992

Date1952

MediumOil and graphite on linen

Dimensions93 1/2 x 51 1/2 in. (237.5 x 130.8 cm)
Frame: 95 1/2 x 53 1/2 in. (242.6 x 135.9 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineBequest of Fannie and Alan Leslie

Object number2006.21.16

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated 1952, probably Sloatsburg, New York; collection of the artist; [Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, by 1955]; [Knoedler & Co., New York]; Fannie and Alan Leslie, Palm Springs, CA, 1996(?); bequeathed to NCMA, 2006.Published ReferencesThomas B. Hess, "Inside nature," Art News 56 (February 1958), illus. (b-w) 40.

John I. H. Baur, Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century Art (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1958), illus. (b-w) 30.

John Gordon, Richard Pousette-Dart (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1963), cat. no. 23, illus. (b-w).

W. Jackson Rushing, "Pousette-Dart's Spirit-Object," Art Journal 50 (Summer 1991), 73.

Robert Hobbs and Joanne Kuebler, Richard Pousette-Dart (exhibition catalogue) (Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1990), 54, 116, illus. (color) plate 74.

Joanne Muller Kuebler, "Richard Pousette-Dart: Abstract Expressionist" (Ph.D. diss.: Indiana University, 1994), 225, 230.

Richard Pousette-Dart: Paintings from the 40's and 50's (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Knoedler & Co., 1996), mentioned [3].

Pepe Karmel, "Art in Review," The New York Times, January 19, 1996, C18.

B.L. [Ben Lifson], "Richard Pousette-Dart," Artforum 34 (April 1996), 99.

Eric Gibson, "Richard Pousette-Dart," Art News 95 (May 1996), 134.

Reagan Upshaw, "Richard Pousette-Dart at Knoedler," Art in America 84 (September 1996), 110.

An American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton (exhibition catalogue) (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 1999), 24.

Richard Pousette-Dart: The New York School and Beyond, Sam Hunter & Joanne Kuebler, eds. (Milan: Skira, 2005), illus. (color) pl. 40.

"New and On View: Modern American Paintings from the Bequest of Fannie and Alan Leslie," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (November/December 2007), briefly discussed and illus. (color) 8.

John W. Coffey, entry for Golden Dawn, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 472, illus. (color) 473.

Lilly Wei, "Richard Pousette-Dart" (exhibition review), Art News 109, no. 8 (September 2010), mentioned 117.

Innis Howe Shoemaker, Full Circle: Works on Paper by Richard Pousette-Dart, (exhibition catalogue) (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014), briefly discussed 101–102, illus. (color) 100, fig. 1-34 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).
Exhibition History[possibly New York, NY, Betty Parsons Gallery, "1953 Paintings," March 9-28, 1953].

New York, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, "The New Decade: 35 American Painters and Sculptors," May 11-August 7, 1955, listed in checklist (Lent by Betty Parsons Gallery).

New York, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, "Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century Art," January 14-March 16, 1958; Washington, DC, The Phillips Gallery, April 2-May 4, 1958; Forth Worth, TX, Fort Worth Art Center, June 2-29, 1958; Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 16-August 24, 1958; San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Museum of Art, September 10-October 12, 1958; Minneapolis, MN, Walker Art Center, October 29-December 14, 1958; St. Louis, MO, City Art Museum of St. Louis, January 7-February 8, 1959, unnumbered, illus. (b-w) 30.

Kassel, (West) Germany, "Documenta II," July 11-October 11, 1959, cat. p. 332, no. 1, illus. (b-w, lent by Betty Parsons Gallery).

New York, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, "Richard Pousette-Dart," April 17-May 26, 1963, no. 23, illus. (b-w, lent by Betty Parsons Gallery).

Indianapolis, IN, Indianapolis Museum of Art, "Richard Pousette-Dart: A Retrospective," October 14-December 30, 1990; Detroit, MI, Detroit Institute of Arts, February 10-April 9, 1991; Columbus, GA, The Columbus Museum of Art, September 28, 1991-January 5, 1992, no. 74, illus. (color).

New York, NY, Knoedler & Co., "Richard Pousette-Dart: Paintings from the 40's and 50's," January 10-February 3, 1996, mentioned in cat., p.[3] (no checklist).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Modern American Paintings from the Bequest of Fannie and Alan Leslie,” November 25, 2007–September 6, 2009.

Washington, DC, The Phillips Collection, "Richard Pousette-Dart: Predominantly White Paintings," June 5-September 12, 2010.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Reflections on Light: Works from the NCMA Collection,” September 9, 2020–August 15, 2021.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–October 30, 2023. Object Rights Statement

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