Rape of the Sabine Women (Rape of the Sabines)

Inscription

Signed, lower left: Dr. Seuss

Exhibition History

The Dartmouth Club, 109 East 42nd Street, New York, about 1930-date unknown.

Alumni Hall(during Class of 1925, 50th Reunion), Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1975.

A Space for Dialogue 20, Broken Bodies: Icons of Sexual Violence, Risa Needleman, Class of 2004, Curatorial Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 25-July 18, 2004.

Publication History

Timothy Cahill, "Dr. Seuss and the Sabine Woman," Art Conservator, Williamstown Art Conservation Center, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Volume 11, Number 2, Winter 2016, pp. 4-7.

Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Volume 88, Number 8, May 1996, ill. p. 96

Charles D. Cohen, The Seuss, The Whole Seuss, and Nothing but the Seuss: A Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel, New York City: Random House, 2004, pp. 99-103, ill. p. 100.

Caroline M. Smith, "Dr. Seuss's Secrets of the Deep: The Lost, Forgotten, and Hidden Works of Theodor Seuss Geisel," Chicago: Chase Art Companies, 2010. pp 138, 150-151, ill. pp. 138,150-151.

Alice Gomstyn, "What's Under the Hood? A peek at some of the rarest and most offbeat items housed in the College's Hood Museum of Art," Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Volume 96, Number 4, March-April 2004, pp. 30-31, ill. pp. 31.

Provenance

Artist commissioned by Al Snite, Class of 1932, for the Dartmouth Club of New York; given to President Ernest Martin Hopkins, 1963; catalogued by present collection, 1963.

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