Boats in Flushing Harbor

Original Language TitleLes Bateaux à Flessingue

Former TitleVolendam

Artist Paul Signac (French, 1863 - 1935)

Date1896

MediumColor lithograph

DimensionsImage: 12 11/16 × 15 13/16 inches (32.23 × 40.16 cm)
Sheet: 16 × 21 inches (40.64 × 53.34 cm)

Credit LineGift of Richard S. Davis

Object number53-29

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Exhibition History

Albrecht Art Gallery, St. Joseph, MO, September 18-October 19, 1966.

Provenance

Richard S. Davis (1917–1985), Wayzata, MN, by December 26, 1952 [1];

Given by Davis to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.

NOTES:

[1] Lt. Richard Siebe Davis, USNR, was a curator (1948–56) and then director (1956–59) at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. From January–May 1946 while assigned to Tokyo, Davis served as a “Monuments Man” in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) Section during World War II.

Published References

Eberhard W. Kornfeld and Peter A. Wick, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié de Paul Signac (Bern, Switzerland: Kornfeld und Klipstein, 1974), 12 IV/IV.

Pat Gilmour, "New Light on Paul Signac's Colour Lithographs," The Burlington Magazine 132, no. 1045 (April 1990): 271-275.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 298, as Les Bateaux à Flessingue.

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