Blue Divide
Esmé Thompson, American, born 1946
2005
Acrylic on tin (concave galvanized maple sugar bucket lids)
Overall: 12 × 12 × 3 in. (30.5 × 30.5 × 7.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William S. Rubin Fund
© Esmé Thompson
2008.11
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Exhibition History
Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 2008.
Contemporary Abstraction: Works from the Hood Museum of Art's Permanenet Collection, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 4-March 13, 2016.
Esmé Thompson: The Alchemy of Design, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 9-May 29, 2011.
Publication History
Katherine Hart, Liz Quackenbush, Marjorie Woods, Brian Kennedy, Esmé Thompson: The Alchemy of Design, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, ill. back cover.
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.218, no.317.
Provenance
The artist, West Lebanon, New Hampshire; sold to present collection, 2008.
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