Monolith

Byron Browne, American, 1907 - 1961

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1951

Oil on canvas

Overall: 29 7/8 × 23 15/16 in. (75.9 × 60.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert S. Engelman, Class of 1934

© Byron Browne

P.960.90.3

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: Byron Brown/ 1951

Course History

ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014

Exhibition History

Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-July 12, 2006.

Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 6, 2008.

Publication History

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.28, no.6.

Provenance

Associated American Artists, New York; sold to Robert S. Engelman (1912-200), Highland Park, Illinois; given to (arranged through Reeves Lewenthal, AAA Chairman) present collection, 1960.

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