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Title:Ethereal and Earthbound
Artist:Jeanne Duval (American, born Petersborough, New Hampshire, 1956)
Date:1982
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:40 x 36 in. (101.6 x 91.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Harvey Kenneth Shepard and Nancy Massett Shepard, in memory of Edward Massett, 1983
Accession Number:1983.249
the artist, New York (1982–83; sold in 1983 through the Sherry French Gallery, New York to Shepard); Harvey Kenneth Shepard and Nancy Massett Shepard, Dover, N. H. (1983; their gift to MMA)
New York. First Street Gallery. "Jeanne Duval," May 1983.
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale. "New Narrative Painting: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," February 9–26, 1984, no. 12.
Mexico City. Museo Rufino Tamayo. "Nueva Pintura Narrativa: Coleccion del Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York," November–December 1984, no. 13.
Jacksonville, Fla. Jacksonville Art Museum. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 9–April 21, 1985, unnumbered cat. (p. 137).
Oklahoma City. Oklahoma Museum of Art. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 5–June 30, 1985, unnumbered cat.
New York. National Academy of Design. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," July 16–September 1, 1985, unnumbered cat.
Evanston, Ill. Terra Museum of American Art. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 15–November 10, 1985, unnumbered cat.
Little Rock. Arkansas Arts Center. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," November 12, 1985–January 19, 1986, unnumbered cat.
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 9–March 30, 1986, unnumbered cat.
St. Paul. Minnesota Museum of Art. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 20–June 8, 1986, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The 1980s: A New Generation, American Painters and Sculptors," April 13–July 31, 1988, brochure no. 16.
Virginia Beach Center for the Arts. "Made in America," April 5–June 11, 1989, unnumbered cat. (p. 33).
Roslyn Harbor, N. Y. Nassau County Museum of Art. "American Narrative Painting and Sculpture: The 1980's from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art," August 4–November 3, 1991, unnumbered cat. (p. 34).
Manchester, N. H. Currier Gallery of Art. "Community of Creativity: A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists," September 13–December 2, 1996, colorpl. 15.
Wichita Art Museum. "Community of Creativity: A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists," April 20–June 15, 1997, colorpl. 15.
Lowery Stokes Sims. The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Jacksonville Art Museum. New York, 1984, pp. 115, 136–37, ill. (color).
Stephen M. Doherty. "Jeanne Duval." American Artist. March 1984, pp. 46–50, ill. p. 49.
Lisa M. Messinger in William S. Lieberman. Nueva Pintura Narrativa: Coleccion del Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York. Exh. cat., Museo Rufino Tamayo. Mexico City, 1984, pp. 36, 42, ill.
Lisa Mintz Messinger inNew Narrative Painting: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale . Fort Lauderdale, 1984, unpaginated, no. 12, ill. (overall and detail).
Amei Wallach. "The 80s, So Far." Newsday (April 24, 1988), p. B18.
Lowery S. Sims inMade in America. Exh. cat., Virginia Beach Center for the Arts. Virginia Beach, 1989, pp. 14, 33.
Norman Lewis (American, New York 1909–1979 New York)
1978
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