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Artist/Maker
Kyra Markham
(American, 1891 - 1967)
Date1935
MediumLithograph on paper
DimensionsComposition: 12 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (32.4 × 24.8 cm)
Sheet: 17 in. × 13 1/4 in. (43.2 × 33.7 cm)
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Edward W. Root, Class of 1905, memorial fund by William G. Roehrick, Class of 1934, H1971
Object number1989.24
Not on view
DescriptionThe Dress Store was [S.] Klein's on Union Square (east side north of 14th street). Women would go in pairs to look for the bargains. One to hold purest clothes while the other tried on a dress. There were cubicles without doors. There was also, as shown , an employee who kept an eye on the customer to see that no one put on a new dress under the old one. - W. Roehrick '34
Collections
Additional Details
Exhibition History
2006
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Works by WPA Artists from the Collection of the Emerson Gallery," September 22 - December 30, 2006 (cat. no. 9, illus., 11) [installed in conjunction with the exhibition "WPA Artists: Prints from the Amity Art Foundation"];
1992
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Highlights from the Hamilton College Collection," June 5 - September 6, 1992, (cat. no. 47).
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Works by WPA Artists from the Collection of the Emerson Gallery," September 22 - December 30, 2006 (cat. no. 9, illus., 11) [installed in conjunction with the exhibition "WPA Artists: Prints from the Amity Art Foundation"];
1992
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Highlights from the Hamilton College Collection," June 5 - September 6, 1992, (cat. no. 47).
Provenance
1989: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by purhase at auction, James R. Baker Antiquities, Cambridge, MA.
Published References
Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Friends of Art Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 3, April 1990, "Acquisitions".
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE HAMILTON COLLEGE COLLECTION (exh. cat., Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, June 5 – September 6, 1992, cat. no.47).
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE HAMILTON COLLEGE COLLECTION (exh. cat., Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, June 5 – September 6, 1992, cat. no.47).
Signature
Signed "Kyra" in stone at lower left corner; signed and dated "Kyra Markham '35" at lower right in pencil.
Inscribed
"The Fit Yourself Shop", "45/50" at lower left in pencil.
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