West Wind

Artist Gifford Reynolds Beal (American, 1879 - 1956)

Dateca. 1945-1950

MediumOil on pressboard

DimensionsUnframed: 30 1/16 × 40 inches (76.36 × 101.6 cm)
Framed: 38 3/4 × 48 5/8 inches (98.43 × 123.51 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Atha

Object number51-67

SignedSigned bottom edge, center: Gifford Beal

On View

Not on view

Collections

American Art

Terms

DescriptionFour sail boats in middle ground on sea. Rocky foreground; center and left, rocky pointwith red light tower at tip; green land and other sails in background.Published References

Published References

“Beal and Biddle Display Art Here,” New York Times, 8 April 1950, 10.

Margaret Breuning, “Gifford Beal Makes the Prosaic Poetic,” Art Digest 24 (15 April 1950), 15.

“Reviews and Previews,” Art News 49 (April 1950), 48.

Gifford Beal, exh. cat. (New York: Kraushaar Galleries, 1950), cover, unpaginated.

American Painting of Today, 1950: A National Competition, foreword by Francis Henry Taylor, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1950), [10].

“Gifts to the Collection,” Gallery News, March 1952, clipping, NAMA Archives.

Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4^th ed. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 255.

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5^th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 250.

“Acquisitions,” Kansas City Star, 15 November 1987, 124.

“New at the Nelson: Museum Receives American Impressionist Painting,” Calendar of Events (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art), December 1987, 2–3.

Henry Adams, Handbook of American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1991), 132.

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