Roofs
George Copeland Ault, American, 1891 - 1948
1931
Oil on canvas
Overall: 25 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (64.8 × 49.5 cm)
Frame: 31 1/16 × 24 15/16 in. (78.9 × 63.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
P.935.1.3
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right: G. C. Ault `31. Signed, dated, and inscribed, by artist, on label on reverse: Roofs / By: George C. Ault / Price: 4300 / 1931
Course History
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R. Taylor, Fall 2013
THEA 90, Contemporary Practices in U.S. Theater, Laurie Cherba Kohn, Fall 2013
WRIT 5, The Waste Land, Before and After, Melissa Zeiger, Fall 2013
Exhibition History
American Paintings from the Dartmouth Collection, 1910-1960, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 17-April 12, 1998.
American Viewpoints: Painting and Sculpture from the Hood Museum of Art, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California, May 5-August 31, 2003.
Architecture on Paper, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 10, 1983-January 29, 1984.
Cubism and Its Legacy, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 17-December 20, 2013.
First Municipal Art Exhibition, Rockefeller Center, New York, New York, February 26-March 1934, no. 29.
George Ault, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, April 8-June 8, 1988.
Gifts of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-July 11, 1976.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 18, 2007.
Picturing New York: Images of the City, 1890-1955, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 31-June 21, 1992.
Publication History
Barbara MacAdam, "Picturing New York: Images of the City, 1890-1955", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1992, no.5.
Susan Lubowsky, GEORGE AULT, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1988, p.53.
Margaret Lowengruend, "George Ault-1891-1948," Art Digest, Vol. 23, No. 20, September 15, 1949, p. 20, illus.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 98, no. 74.
Provenance
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), New York; given to present collection, 1935.
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