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Title:Market Place
Artist:Andrée Ruellan (American, New York, New York 1905–2006 Kingston, New York)
Date:1939
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:28 x 42 1/4 in. (71.1 x 107.3 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:George A. Hearn Fund, 1940
Accession Number:40.83
Inscription: Signed (lower right): Andreé Ruellan
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1939–40; sold through Walker Galleries, Inc., New York to MMA)
New York. Walker Galleries. "13 Americans," September 5–27, 1939, no catalogue.
Pittsburgh. Carnegie Institute. "The 1939 International Exhibition of Paintings," October 19–December 10, 1939, no. 52.
New York. Walker Galleries. "Andrée Ruellan: New Paintings," February 5–24, 1940, no. 1.
New York. Brearley School. March 9–June 20, 1945, no catalogue.
Norfolk, Va. Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. "Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art," December 1, 1946–January 26, 1947, no catalogue.
Nashville, Tenn. Watkins Institute. "20 Contemporary American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 7–31, 1949, no catalogue.
Athens. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia. "Andrée Ruellan," January 30–March 21, 1993, no. 24 (as "Market Place [City Market, Charleston]").
Glen Falls, N. Y. The Hyde Collection. "Andrée Ruellan," June 27–August 22, 1993, no. 24.
Charleston, S. C. Gibbes Museum of Art. "Andrée Ruellan," September 15–October 31, 1993, no. 24.
Woodstock, N. Y. Woodstock Artists Association. "Andrée Ruellan: A Retrospective," May 6–July 24, 2000, unnum. brochure (as "Marketplace [City Market, Charleston]").
Howard Devree. "Birds Before the Dawn: Brief Comment on Newly Opened Shows Which Herald the Season to Come." New York Times (September 10, 1939), p. X7.
Helen Buchalter. "Carnegie International, 1939." Magazine of Art 32 (November 1939), ill. p. 634.
"Art Museum Buys 14 Modern Works." New York Times (June 16, 1940), p. 3.
"Contemporary Paintings: An Exhibition of Fourteen Works Recently Acquired by the Metropolitan Museum." New York Herald Tribune (June 16, 1940), p. G5, notes that this work is on view in the Museum's Room of Recent Accessions.
"Art Throughout America. New York: 500 Paintings Accessible for Loan: Hearn Fund Acquisitions." Art News 38 (July 13, 1940), p. 23.
Howard Devree. "A Reviewer's Notebook: Segonzac and Dufy in Sharp Contrast—Ann Brockman, Andree Ruellan, Others." New York Times (February 11, 1940), p. 136.
Royal Cortissoz. "A Miscellany of Art in Diverse Mediums." New York Herald Tribune (February 11, 1940), p. E8, ill.
"Andree Ruellan Exhibits Her Action Oils." Art Digest 14 (February 15, 1940), p. 17.
Ernest W. Watson. "An Interview with Andrée Ruellan." American Artist 7 (October 1943), ill. p. 12.
"Art Exhibit Opens Sunday at Museum." Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch (November 30, 1946), p. 3.
Charles L. Fontenay. "Dr. Dutch's Talk, Preview Mark Exhibit Opening." Nashville Tennessean (October 8, 1949), p. 5.
Marlene Park inAndree Ruellan. Exh. cat., Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia. Athens, 1993, pp. 58, 60, 76, no. 24, ill.
Polly Kline. Andree Ruellan: A Retrospective. Exh. brochure, Woodstock Artists Association. Woodstock, N.Y., 2000, unpaginated, ill. (color).
Florine Stettheimer (American, Rochester, New York 1871–1944 New York, New York)
1942
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