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Artist/Maker
Ed Schoenberger
(American, 1915 – 2007)
Date1949
MediumOil on board
DimensionsComposition: 63.5 x 79.4 cm (25 x 31 1/4 in.)
Frame: 77.5 x 93.8 x 2.2 cm (30 1/2 x 36 15/16 x 7/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Richard F. Plotka, Class of 1956
Object number1986.31
Not on view
DescriptionSanta claus sits in the center of the painting surrounded by elves who are constructing toys
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Additional Details
Exhibition History
1987
Clinton, NY. Bistol Campus Center, Hamilton College. "Primitive Paintings from the Hamilton College Collection: Gifts of Richard F. Plotka '56", March 23 - June 1987 (no cat.)
Clinton, NY. Bistol Campus Center, Hamilton College. "Primitive Paintings from the Hamilton College Collection: Gifts of Richard F. Plotka '56", March 23 - June 1987 (no cat.)
Published References
Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Friends of Art Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1, February 1988, "Acquisitions 1986"
Signature
Recto, lower left: "E. SCHOENBERGER / 1949"
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