The Mammon Altarpiece
William Christopher, American, 1924 - 1973
1963
Oil on board
Frame: 45 1/16 × 84 7/16 in. (114.5 × 214.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Tatiana de Fidler in memory of her mother, Marie Morosoff de Fidler
P.966.126
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, all three panels, lower center: Christopher. Not dated. Reverse of left and right panels are backed with gilt. Written on reverse of center panel in black paint: "The Mannon Altarpiece" Christopher / 1963.
Course History
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, III, Summer 2013
SART 25, SART 31, Painting I, II, Summer 2013
Exhibition History
National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York, April 15-June 30, 1969.
William Christopher, Paintings, Collages, Drawings, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Museum and Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 5-28, 1965.
Publication History
Robert Cozzolino, Marshall N. Price and M. Melissa Wolfe, George Tooker: A Retrospective, Ohio: Columbus Museum of Art and Merrell Publishers, 2008, ill. p. 179, fig. 16
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.212, no.285.
Provenance
Count Georges d'Ismailoff, Paris, France; Tatiana de Fidler, Washington, D.C.; given to present collection, 1966.
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