The Grand Uniform (The General)
Enrico Baj, Italian, 1924 - 2003
1958
Oil, glass, rope, medals and fabric collage on canvas
Overall: 51 × 37 13/16 in. (129.5 × 96 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ernestine and Herbert S. Ruben
P.976.284
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left: baj; signed and inscribed on reverse: Compare by Baj; Baj. Inscribed on stretcher: "Grand / Uniforme" / Label in artist's hand on stretcher: Enrico Baj / via Teullie Milano / 1958 / Grand Uniforme. Label on reverse: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston / Birmingham, MI, no. 130.
Course History
ARTH 63.13, Bad Art!, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
ARTH 63.13, Bad Art!, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
ITAL 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Damiano Benvegnu, Fall 2021
Art History 63.13, Bad Art!, Katie Hornstein, Summer 2023
Exhibition History
Acquisitions 1974-1978, Jaffe-Friede, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 8, 1978-January 21, 1979.
Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 26,2009-March 15, 2010.
New Acquisitions (1974-78) I, Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 3-March 5, 1978.
Second Stage of Modernism: Art from 1945 to the Present, William B. Jaffe, Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall, Churchill P. Lathrop, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 6-August 16, 1987.
Used in the Arts Education Program for instruction, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 1983.
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.37, no.14.
Provenance
Collection of Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston, Birmingham, Michigan, no. 130; 1976,; to Ernestine [their daughter] and Herbert S. Ruben, Princeton, New Jersey; given to present collection, 1976.
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