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Title:Haircut by the Sea
Artist:Waldo Peirce (American, Bangor, Maine 1884–1970 Newburyport, Massachusetts)
Date:1933
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:51 x 35 in. (129.5 x 88.9 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:George A. Hearn Fund, 1937
Object Number:37.152
Inscription: Signed (lower left): WP
the artist, Pomona, N. Y. (1933–37; sold through Midtown Galleries, New York to MMA)
Pittsburgh. Carnegie Institute. "The 1934 International Exhibition of Paintings," October 18–December 9, 1934, no. 42.
Southampton, N.Y. Four Fountains. "Midtown Galleries group exhibition," July 30–August 1935, no catalogue.
Art Institute of Chicago. "Forty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture," October 24–December 8, 1935, no. 158.
New York. Midtown Galleries. "Waldo Peirce," closed January 25, 1936, no catalogue.
Andover, Mass. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy. "Reginald Marsh, Waldo Peirce," March 13–April 21, 1937, no. 12 (lent courtesy of the artist and Midtown Galleries, New York).
New York. Midtown Galleries. "Waldo Peirce, Six Year Retrospective: Exhibition of Paintings," August 30–September 25, 1937, no. 9.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Contemporary Painting in the United States," April 19–27, 1941, no. 127.
Mexico City. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes. "La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana," June 12–July 9, 1941, unnumbered cat. (p. 87).
Santiago. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. "La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana," September 6–October 5, 1941, unnumbered cat.
Lima. Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. "La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana," November 5–30, 1941, unnumbered cat.
Quito. Universidad Central de Ecuador. "La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana," December 1941, unnumbered cat.
New York. Midtown Galleries. "Waldo Peirce," October 31–December 1, 1945.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Painters: A Special Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Drawings Selected from the Collections of American Art in the Metropolitan Museum," June 16–October 29, 1950, unnum. brochure (p. 10).
Winnipeg Art Gallery. "European and American Paintings," January 21–February 17, 1951.
Mead Art Building, Amherst College. "American Art of the Depression Era," February 25–March 19, 1969, unnumbered cat. (p. 8).
Edward Alden Jewell. "From Philadelphia to Far Horizons." New York Times (October 28, 1934), p. X9.
"Art at Southampton." New York Herald Tribune (August 4, 1935), p. D4.
Edward Alden Jewell. "Three One-Man Shows: Creative Imagination Links the Painting of Carroll, O'Keeffe and Waldo Peirce." New York Times (January 12, 1936), ill. p. X9.
E [dward]. A [lden]. J [ewell]. "Peirce's Retrospective." New York Times (September 5, 1937), p. 125.
"Debut This Year, Metropolitan Museum Honors Them." Art Digest 12 (August 1, 1938), p. 7.
"Metropolitan Buys Native Canvases." New York Times (July 17, 1938), p. X7.
Harry B. Wehle. "National Art Week and the Museum: Trends in American Painting." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 35 (November 1940), ill. p. 13.
Edward Alden Jewell. "Landscape in a Rich Panorama." New York Times (November 11, 1945), p. 51.
Florine Stettheimer (American, Rochester, New York 1871–1944 New York, New York)
1942
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