Children Playing

Artist Arthur L. Esner (American, 1902 - 1989)

Date1931

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 20 9/16 × 26 5/8 inches (52.23 × 67.63 cm)
Framed: 26 × 32 1/16 × 2 1/4 inches (66.04 × 81.43 × 5.72 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. Harvey Leepa

Object number33-59

SignedSigned lower right: Esner; inscribed on verso center: #133 / a. l. e. / 1931

Inscribedinscribed on verso center: #133/ A. L. E./ 1931

On View

Not on view

Collections

American Art

Terms

Published References

“Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, Acquires Art Covering Wide Range,” Art Digest 7 (1 April 1933), 7 (as Piccaninnies);

“The Acquisitions,” Art Digest 8 (1 December 1933), 21 (as Pickaninnies);

“The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art: Complete Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings,” Art News 32 (9 December 1933), 28 (as Pickaninnies);

NAMA 1933, 137 (as Pickaninnies);

Carlyle Burrows, “Notes and Comment on Events in Art,” New York Herald Tribune, 21 October 1934, sec. 5, 10;

Exhibition of Paintings: Arthur L. Esner, exh. cat. (New York: Midtown Galleries, 1934), unpaginated (as Pickaninnies at Play);

“Liberal with Art,” Kansas City Star, 1 January 1936, 8 (as Pickaninnies);

NAMA 1940, 24 (as Pickaninnies);

“New Art Course Is Offered Public at Jewish Center: Well-Known Artist, Muralist to Be Instructor,” Quincy (Mass.) Patriot Ledger, 24 April 1945, 8.

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