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Form and Gardenia, No. 1
Form and Gardenia, No. 1

Form and Gardenia, No. 1

Artist John Walker British, born 1939
Date1987
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions97 x 85 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. (246.4 x 216.9 x 5.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Mary and Jim Patton
Object number2014.20.75
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceCreated Melbourne, Australia, 1987; collection of the artist; [Knoedler & Co., New York]; Mary and James R. Patton, Great Falls, VA, February 1988; given to NCMA, 2014.Published ReferencesT. R. [Timothy Riggs], entry for Muddy Cove, Incoming Tide, in Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton (Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, 2001), no. 23, illus. (color) 75.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Knoedler & Co., “John Walker: Recent Paintings,” October 1–31, 1987.

Chapel Hill, NC, Ackland Art Museum, “Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton,” September 9–November 11, 2001, no. 23, illus. (color) 75.

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