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Artist Friedel Dzubas American, born Germany, 1915–1994
Date1981
MediumAcrylic on canvas
Dimensions96 x 96 in. (243.8 x 243.8 cm)
Frame: 97 1/4 x 97 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. (247 x 247.7 x 5.7 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Mary and Jim Patton
Object number2014.20.18
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceCreated United States, probably Boston, 1981; collection of the artist; [Knoedler & Co., New York]; Mary and James R. Patton Jr., Great Falls, VA, November 1982; given to NCMA, 2014.
Published ReferencesCharles W. Millard, Friedel Dzubas (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1983), 19.

M. B. [Megan Bahr], entry for Grade in Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton (exhibition catalogue) (Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, 2001), no. 4, illus. (color) 37.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., “Friedel Dzubas: Recent Paintings,” January 30–February 18, 1982, no. 4.

Chapel Hill, NC, Ackland Art Museum, “Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Jim and Mary Patton,” September 9–November 11, 2001, no. 4, illus. (color) 37.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “The Patton Collection: A Gift to North Carolina,” March 28–August 23, 2015.
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