Dark Abstract II

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Dark Abstract II
Dark Abstract II
Artist/Maker (Irish, 1918 - 2016)
Date1949
MediumOil on Masonite
DimensionsComposition: 17 5/8 × 29 1/2 in. (44.8 × 74.9 cm) Frame: 23 3/8 × 35 5/8 × 1 1/2 in. (59.4 × 90.5 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of John B. Root, Class of 1944
Object number1989.8
Not on view
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Additional Details

Exhibition History 2012
Clinton, NY (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College). "Affinity Atlas," October 6, 2012 - April 7, 2013 (brochure);

2007-2008
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "The Best Kind of Life: Edward W. Root as Teacher, Collector, and Naturalist," September 27, 2007 - January 6, 2008 (unnumbered cat.).
Provenance 1989: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of John B. Root;
? - 1989: John B. Root, acquired by inheritance.
Published References Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Friends of Art Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 3, April 1990, "Acquisitions"

THE BEST KIND OF LIFE: EDWARD W. ROOT AS TEACHER, COLLECTOR, AND NATURALIST (exh. cat. Clinton, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, 2007), 52.
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Sénèque Obin
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Medium: Oil on masonite
Object number: 1981.13
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Gervais Emmanuel Ducasse
Date: likely 1950s or 1960s
Medium: Oil on masonite (or gesso board)
Object number: 1981.11
Funerailles Maconnaire
Sénèque Obin
Date: early 1960s
Medium: Oil on masonite
Object number: 1981.15
Interior
Télémaque Obin
Date: likely no earlier than mid-1960s
Medium: Oil on masonite
Object number: 1981.16
Cock
Sisson Blanchard
Date: likely 1950s or 1960s
Medium: Oil on masonite
Object number: 1981.10
Photo by John Bentham.
Préfète Duffaut
Date: 1950-1959
Medium: Oil on masonite
Object number: 1981.12
Cockfight
Pauléus Vital
Date: 1971
Medium: Oil on masonite
Object number: 1981.17
Le Grand Chasseur (Hunting Scene)
Sénèque Obin
Date: mid 1950s
Medium: Oil on masonite
Object number: 1981.14
with frame. Photograph by John Bentham.
Edmund Lewandowski
Date: 1946
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Object number: 1963.2
Sketch for Homesteaders mural: The Homesteader’s Campfire
James Penney
Date: 1962-63
Medium: Oil on masonite
Object number: 2002.29.3
Photo by John Bentham.
William H. Beard
Date: 1878
Medium: Oil on canvas, mounted on masonite
Object number: 1971.1
Sketch for Homesteaders mural: The First Furrow
James Penney
Date: 1962-63
Medium: Oil on masonite
Object number: 2002.29.1