Fast Freight - Puente, California
Barse Miller, American, 1904 - 1973
1941
Transparent and opaque watercolor on heavy wove paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 14 7/8 × 21 7/8 in. (37.8 × 55.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Philip H. Greene, in memory of his wife and co-collector, Marjorie B. Greene
2007.6.10
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated lower right: Barse Miller 1941; inscribed, in ink, on reverse: "FAST FREIGHT" 1941 PUENTE CALIF. / BARSE MILLER / 4920 CARMEL RD. / LA CANADA, CALIF.; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse: #2 22" x 15" / 11 [circled] / copy all numbers [last word illegible] WATERMARK: none
Exhibition History
California Style: 1930s and 40s, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA, August 21-Sept. 28, 1997; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, Dec. 13, 1997-March 22, 1998; Ventura Museum of History and Art, Ventura, CA, April 3-June 14, 1998. Catalogue by Sebastopol Center for the Arts and curator David Stary-Sheets, Sebastopol, CA: Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 1997, ill. in color p. 23, fig. 56.
Coastline to Skyline: The Philip H. Greene Gift of California Watercolors, 1930-1960, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 11, 2008-January 4, 2009.
Visions of California, The Irvine Museum, Irvine, CA, 1994.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Coastline to Skyline: The Philip H. Greene Gift of California Watercolors, 1930-1960, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, p. 46, no. 7.
California Style: 1930s and 40s, Catalogue by Sebastopol Center for the Arts and curator David Stary-Sheets, Sebastopol, CA: Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 1997, ill. in color p. 23, fig. 56.
Paul J. Karlstrom, The Philip H. Greene Gift of California Watercolors, American Art Review, Volume XX, Number 6, Leawood, Kansas: American Arts Media, Inc., November-December, 2008, ill. p. 127.
Provenance
Stary-Sheets Fine Art Galleries, Irvine, California; sold to Philip H. Greene (1925-2014),, January 8, 1991; given to present collection, 2007.
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