Orpheus & the Clucks

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Orpheus & the Clucks
Orpheus & the Clucks
Artist/Maker (American, 1908-1980)
Date1940
MediumTempera on board
DimensionsComposition: 5 × 8 in. (12.7 × 20.3 cm) Sheet: 8 in. × 10 1/8 in. (20.3 × 25.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of James Taylor Dunn, Class of 1936
Object number1994.86
Not on view
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Additional Details

Provenance 1940 - 1946: Private collection of Montfort Dunn
1947 - 1994: Private collection James Taylor Dunn, acquired from Montfort Dunn
1994: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of James Taylor Dunn
Published References Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Friends of Art Newsletter, August 1995, Acquisitions 1994
Signature Signed and dated in paint at lower left [cut off]: La More / 11/25/40
Inscribed Entitled in paint at lower left [cut off]: [...]pheus + / the Cluck's; inscribed in pencil on verso at upper left: 13-2 [encircled]; in pencil on verso at upper right: Orpheus and the Clucks / #17; in blue crayon on verso at upper left: 301.21:43 [with strike through]; in blue ink on verso at upper right: by Chet LeMore [underlined]; in pencil on verso at center: [illegible, with strike through]; in ink on verso at lower right: provenance: / Montfort Dunn (1940-46) / James Taylor Dunn (1947-94) '36 / and presented by him / to Emerson Gallery / Hamilton College / Clinton. N.Y. '94
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