The Meeting
Artist
Jon Corbino
(American, 1905 - 1964)
Date1943
MediumOil on Masonite
DimensionsUnframed: 36 1/16 × 22 7/8 inches (91.6 × 58.1 cm)
Framed: 44 × 30 1/2 × 1 1/2 inches (111.76 × 77.47 × 3.81 cm)
Framed: 44 × 30 1/2 × 1 1/2 inches (111.76 × 77.47 × 3.81 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Friends of Art
Object number45-65
SignedSigned lower right: Jon Corbino; signed and dated on verso upper left:
Jon Corbino / 1943
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionTwo standing figures of women, full-length; one in dull red dress, the other one semi-nude with heavily shadowed face; indistinct figure in hazy background.Published ReferencesThe One Hundred and Fortieth Annual Exhibition of Painting and
Sculpture, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, 1945), unpaginated; H[enry] C. H[askell], “Art and Artists: Kansas City Loses a Patron Who Believed in Modern Art,”
Kansas City Star, 1 February 1946, 16; “Friends in Deed,” Art
Digest 20 (15 March 1946), 10; New Accessions USA, exh. cat.
(Colorado Springs: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1946),
unpaginated; “Modern Painters Are Aided by the Friends of Art,”
Kansas City Star, 12 April 1947, 9D; Winifred Shields, “A Special
Collection of Works Is Growing at Nelson Gallery,” Kansas City
Star, 19 May 1950, 28; “Modern Art Group on Exhibit,” Wichita
(Kans.) Beacon, 22 April 1956, 12C (as Korbino); NAMA 1959,
255; New Accessions USA, 1946–1960, exh. cat. (Colorado Springs:
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1960), unpaginated; NAMA
1973, 251; Diane Lesko, Marcia Corbino, and Lee Corbino, Jon
Corbino: An Heroic Vision, exh. cat. (St. Petersburg, Fla.: Museum
of Fine Arts, 1987), 87.
Sculpture, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, 1945), unpaginated; H[enry] C. H[askell], “Art and Artists: Kansas City Loses a Patron Who Believed in Modern Art,”
Kansas City Star, 1 February 1946, 16; “Friends in Deed,” Art
Digest 20 (15 March 1946), 10; New Accessions USA, exh. cat.
(Colorado Springs: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1946),
unpaginated; “Modern Painters Are Aided by the Friends of Art,”
Kansas City Star, 12 April 1947, 9D; Winifred Shields, “A Special
Collection of Works Is Growing at Nelson Gallery,” Kansas City
Star, 19 May 1950, 28; “Modern Art Group on Exhibit,” Wichita
(Kans.) Beacon, 22 April 1956, 12C (as Korbino); NAMA 1959,
255; New Accessions USA, 1946–1960, exh. cat. (Colorado Springs:
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1960), unpaginated; NAMA
1973, 251; Diane Lesko, Marcia Corbino, and Lee Corbino, Jon
Corbino: An Heroic Vision, exh. cat. (St. Petersburg, Fla.: Museum
of Fine Arts, 1987), 87.
Copyright© Estate of Jon Corbino / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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