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Title:Cocktails
Artist:Guy Pène du Bois (American, New York 1884–1958 Boston, Massachusetts)
Date:1945
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:29 x 36 in. (73.7 x 91.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:George A. Hearn Fund, 1946
Object Number:46.49
Inscription: Signed (lower left): Guy Pène du Bois
[Kraushaar Galleries, New York, until 1946; sold to MMA]
New York. National Academy of Design. "120th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture," December 4–21, 1945, no. 140.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Metropolitan and Whitney Museum Accessions," September 17–October 3, 1946, no catalogue.
Pasadena Art Institute. March 15–May 15, 1947.
New York. Century Club. "Aspects of New York City Life," March 1–April 30, 1950, unnum. checklist.
Los Angeles. Pan Pacific Auditorium. "6th Annual National Construction Industries Exposition and Home Show," June 14–24, 1951 [loan extended to the Tower Gallery, Los Angeles City Hall until August 10, 1951], no catalogue.
New York. Gallery of Modern Art. "About New York, Night and Day 1915–1965," October 19–November 15, 1965, unnumbered cat. (p. 14).
Norwich, Conn. Slater Memorial Museum. "A Survey of American Art," February 4–25, 1968, no. 23.
Westport, Conn. Westport Public Library. "Westport Artists of the Past: A Bicentennial Exhibition 1976," June 12–30, 1976, unnumbered cat.
Washington, D. C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. "Guy Pène du Bois: Artist About Town," October 10–November 30, 1980, no. 83.
Omaha. Joslyn Art Museum. "Guy Pène du Bois: Artist About Town," January 10–March 1, 1981, no. 83.
Evanston, Ill. Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University. "Guy Pène du Bois: Artist About Town," March 20–May 10, 1981, no. 83.
Roslyn Harbor, N. Y. Nassau County Museum of Art. "Town and Country: In Pursuit of Life's Pleasures," May 12–August 11, 1996, unnumbered cat. (p. 66).
"Wins Altman Art Prize: Du Bois Takes $1,200 Award in National Academy's Show." New York Times (December 2, 1945), p. 42.
Edward Alden Jewell. "Academy, Portraits, Bronzes." New York Times (December 9, 1945), ill. p. 59.
"National Academy Prizes Listed for 120th Exhibit: Du Bois Wins $1,200 Altman Award for Painting." New York Herald Tribune (December 1, 1945), p. 9.
Carlyle Burrows. "The Week in Art." New York Herald Tribune (December 9, 1945), p. D7, ill.
Rosamund Frost. "Conflict at the Academy: Progressive Prize Winners Alternate with Painting Styles of the Past." Art News 44 (December 1–14, 1945), p. 16, ill.
Arthur Millier. "Art Masterpieces Lent for Exhibit." Los Angeles Times (June 17, 1951), p. 11.
Hilton Kramer. "Art: 'Westport Artists of Past': A Frame of Historic Reference." New York Times (June 18, 1976), p. 63.
Betsy Fahlman. Guy Pène du Bois: Artist About Town. Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, D. C., 1980, p. 96, no. 83, ill.
Piri Halasz. "Manhattan Museums: The 1940s vs. the 1980s; Part Two: The Metropolitan Museum of Art." Arts Magazine 59 (March 1985), pp. 92, 96, fig. 4.
Betsy Fahlman. Guy Pène du Bois: Painter of Modern Life. Exh. cat., James Graham & Sons. New York, 2004, p. 63.
Helen Langa. "'Guy Pène du Bois, Painter of Modern Life,' Betsy Fahlman." Southeastern College Art Conference Review 14, no. 5 (2005), p. 486.
Guy Pène du Bois (American, New York 1884–1958 Boston, Massachusetts)
1924
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