Tschaikovsky's Sixth
Framed: 42 1/2 x 46 1/2 x 2 9/16 inches (107.95 x 118.11 x 6.51 cm)
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Ross Braught, Ferargil Galleries, New York, February 14–27, 1938, no. 7 (as Tschaikowsky’s Sixth).
Ross Braught, 1898–1983: A Visual Diary, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, March 16–April 22, 2000, no. 10.
Bingham to Benton: The Midwest as Muse, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 5–July 31, 2005, no cat.
Based in Pennsylvania and New York, Braught came to Kansas City in 1931 to lead the painting department at the Kansas City Art Institute, where he taught at two different times. He is best known in Kansas City for his murals in the Music Hall at Municipal Auditorium.
To (Ferargil Galleries, New York, 1938);
To Ethel Greenough (Mrs. Massey) Holmes (1879-1964), Kansas City, MO, 1938;
To The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1938
with Complete List of the Exhibitors,” Art Digest 10 (June
1936), 35; Howard Devree, “A Reviewer’s Notebook,” New York
Times, 20 February 1938, 8; Ross Braught, exh. cat. (New York:
Ferargil Galleries, 1938), unpaginated (as Tschaikowsky’s Sixth);
H[enry] C. H[askell], “Art and Artists: The Artist Has to Expect
Public Interest in His Life,” Kansas City Star, 27 January 1939,
12; “Masterpiece of the Month,” News Flashes (William Rockhill
Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) 5
(February 1939), 2 (as Tchaikowsky’s Sixth); Pictures on Exhibit
2 (March 1939), 44–45; NAMA 1940, 24; NAMA 1941, 166 (as
Tchaikowsky’s “Sixth Symphony”); “It Happened in Kansas City,”
Kansas City Star, 26 May 1943, 6; Kansas City Philharmonic
Orchestra, First Subscription Concert program, 24–25 October 1950,
cover (as Tschaikowsky’s Sixth); Winifred Shields, “The Paintings
of Ross Braught Are Vivid and Communicative,” Kansas City Star,
16 November 1951, 24; NAMA 1959, 255 (as Tchaikowsky’s Sixth
Symphony); NAMA 1973, 250 (as Tchaikowsky’s Sixth Symphony);
NAMA 1991, 147 (as Tchaikovsky’s “Sixth Symphony” [Mako Sica]);
Marianne Berardi, Under the Influence: The Students of Thomas
Hart Benton, exh. cat. (St. Joseph, Mo.: Albrecht-Kemper Museum
of Art, 1993), 62; Bill North and Stephen H. Goddard, Rural
America: Prints from the Collection of Steven Schmidt, exh. cat.
(Lawrence: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1993),
30n29 (as Tschaikowsky’s Sixth [Mako Sico]); David Cleveland,
Ross Braught, 1898–1983: A Visual Diary, exh. cat. (New York:
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 2000), 13, 30; Randall R. Griffey, “Bing
ham to Benton: The Midwest as Muse,” American Art Review 17
(April 2005), 99–100 (illustrated as Tschaikowsky’s Sixth [Mako
Sica], in text as Tschaikovsky’s Sixth [Maco Sika]).
“All America Represented in New York’s First National Show; with Complete List of the Exhibitors,” Art Digest 10 (June 1936), 35.
Howard Devree, “A Reviewer’s Notebook,” New York Times, February 20, 1938, 8.
Ross Braught, exh. cat. (New York: Ferargil Galleries, 1938), unpaginated (as Tschaikowsky’s Sixth).
H[enry] C. H[askell], “Art and Artists: The Artist Has to Expect Public Interest in His Life,” Kansas City Star, January 27, 1939, 12.
“Masterpiece of the Month,” News Flashes (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) 5 (February 1939), 2 (as Tchaikowsky’s Sixth).
Pictures on Exhibit 2 (March 1939), 44–45.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts: Founders and Benefactors (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1940), 24.
The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 166 (as Tchaikowsky’s “Sixth Symphony”).
“It Happened in Kansas City,” Kansas City Star, May 26, 1943, 6.
Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, First Subscription Concert program, October 24–25, 1950, cover (as Tschaikowsky’s Sixth).
Winifred Shields, “The Paintings of Ross Braught Are Vivid and Communicative,” Kansas City Star, November 16, 1951, 24.
Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 255 (as Tchaikowsky’s Sixth Symphony).
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, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 250 (as Tchaikowsky’s Sixth Symphony).
Henry Adams, Handbook of American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1991), 147 (as Tchaikovsky’s “Sixth Symphony” [Mako Sica]).
Marianne Berardi, Under the Influence: The Students of Thomas Hart Benton, exh. cat. (St. Joseph, Mo.: Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, 1993), 62.
Bill North and Stephen H. Goddard, Rural America: Prints from the Collection of Steven Schmidt, exh. cat. (Lawrence: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1993), 30n29 (as Tschaikowsky’s Sixth [Mako Sico]).
David Cleveland, Ross Braught, 1898–1983: A Visual Diary, exh. cat. (New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 2000), 13, 30.
Randall R. Griffey, “Bingham to Benton: The Midwest as Muse,” American Art Review 17 (April 2005), 99–100 (illustrated as Tschaikowsky’s Sixth [Mako Sica], in text as Tschaikovsky’s Sixth [Maco Sika]).
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), 1: 154–59, 2: 74.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 179.
