Street Fight
Jared French, American, 1905 - 1988
1934
Tempera with oil glaze on canvas
Overall: 15 5/8 × 20 7/8 in. (39.7 × 53 cm)
Frame: 21 × 26 1/4 in. (53.3 × 66.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ilse Martha Bischoff
P.950.32.5
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left: jared french; signed and inscribed, by artist, on reverse: Jared french 54 Morton St. NYC (crossed out) 5 St. Luke's Pl. NYC / "Street Fight"
Course History
ANTH 12.3, WGST 42.5, The Ethnography of Violence, Chelsey Kivland, Fall 2013
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
ARTH 71, The "American Century": Modern Art in the United States, Mary Coffey, Winter 2015
ARTH 71, The "American Century": Modern Art in the United States. Mary Coffey, Winter 2015
SART 31, Painting II, Thomas Ferrara, Spring 2019
Exhibition History
14th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., March 24-May 5, 1935.
46th Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, October 22-December 8, 1935.
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
American Paintings from the Dartmouth Collection, 1910-1960, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 17-April 12, 1998.
Carpenter Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 1981-May 1982.
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, February 16, 2016-June 30, 2018.
Jared French Retrospective, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, September 15-December 15, 1992.
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.22.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 90, no. 66.
Cole, Mark Patrick. “Jared French (1905-1988).” PhD diss. University of Delaware, 1999, fig. 64, pgs. 195-197.
Provenance
Ilse Martha Bischoff, Hartland, Vermont; given to present collection, 1950.
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