On the Rocks

Artist Gifford Reynolds Beal (American, 1879 - 1956)

Date1922

MediumOil on pulpboard

DimensionsUnframed: 16 × 20 × 1/4 inches (40.64 × 50.8 × 0.64 cm)
Framed: 23 1/2 × 27 1/2 × 2 1/4 inches (59.69 × 69.85 × 5.72 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Frances M. Logan

Object number47-103

SignedSigned and dated lower right: Gifford Beal / 22; inscribed on verso: sketch of house [upside down]; upper left: On the Rocks; top center: Miss Logan

Inscribedinscribed on verso: sketch of house (upside down); upper left: On the Rocks; top center: Miss Logan

On View

Not on view

Collections

American Art

Terms

DescriptionFigures on a rocky point against a background of houses on a hillside; man and woman with red parasol in foreground.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Kansas Free Fair, Topeka, September 8–14, 1951.

Provenance

To Frances M. Logan;

Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1947.

Published References

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 (as Rockport);

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 (as Rockport).

Margaret C. Conrads, ed. The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945 (Kansas City, Mo.: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007), 2: 13.

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