Lullaby

Artist Robert Gwathmey (American, 1903 - 1988)

Date1945

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 44 1/8 x 28 in. (112.1 x 71.1 cm), frame: 51 1/8 x 35 1/8 x 1 1/8 in. (129.9 x 89.2 x 2.9 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.64

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ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

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Signedbottom left: gwathmey

Exhibition HistoryInaugural Installation: 20th Century American Art Galleries (F103), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024–June 29, 2026. Conversations across the Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 7–May 14, 2023. An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022. An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005. Robert Gwathmey: Master Painter, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, September 5–October 17, 1999; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, November 7–December 26, 1999; Virginia Historical Museum, Richmond, January 9–February 27, 2000; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, March 12–May 28, 2000; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, June 18–August 13, 2000. Robert Gwathmey: Paintings and Early Silkscreen Prints, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, January 7–30, 1993. Robert Gwathmey: Southern Themes, 1945–1965, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, May 5–June 15, 1990. Mother and Child in Modern Art, American Federation of Arts Gallery, New York, December 1963–December 1964. Pepsi-Cola Company’s Third Annual Exhibition: Paintings of the Year, National Academy of Design, New York, October 1–31, 1946; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, December 1–31, 1946; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, January 15–February 15, 1947; Syracuse Museum, March 12–April 12, 1947. Robert Gwathmey, ACA Gallery, New York, January 21–February 9, 1946. Painting in the United States, 1945, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, October 11–December 9, 1945.ProvenanceRobert Riley [and Mrs. Robert Riley], 1945, until at least 1963. Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1993 from Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York. Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019.Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2013), 124, 125 (fig. 2), 126–27, 146n12, 185 (ill., color), 186. An Intimate Eye (brochure) (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 13 (no. 35). Hans P. Guth and Gabriele Rico, Discovering Literature: Stories, Poems, Plays, 3rd ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2003), III vi (ill., color). Joyce Duncan, “Nikki Giovanni,” in Great American Writers: Twentieth Century, ed. R. Baird Shuman (New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2002), 640 (ill., color). Robert Gwathmey: Master Painter (exh. cat.) (Youngstown, OH: Butler Institute of American Art, 1999), 33, 36. Michael Kammen, Robert Gwathmey: The Life and Art of a Passionate Observer (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999), 56, n.p. (ill., color, pl. 7). Peter Hastings Falk, ed., Record of the Carnegie Institute’s International Exhibitions, 1896–1996 (Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1998), 139. “Goings on About Town—Art: Robert Gwathmey,” The New Yorker, June 4, 1990, 18; June 11, 1990, 14; June 18, 1990, 14. Ruth Lines, “The Visual History of the American Family” (master’s thesis, University of Michigan–Flint, 1987), 46, n.p. (ill., pl. 18). Claude Marks, “Robert Gwathmey,” in World Artists: 1950–1980 (New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1984), 342. Bruce Hooton and Nina N. Kaiden, eds., Mother and Child in Modern Art (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1964), 17, n.p. (ill., color, pl. 26). Mother and Child in Modern Art (New York: American Federation of Arts, 1963), n.p. Harry Sternberg, Composition: The Anatomy of Picture Making (New York: Pitman Publishing, 1958), n.p. (ill.). Isabel Stevenson Monro and Kate M. Monro, Index to Reproductions of American Paintings: A guide to pictures occurring in more than eight hundred books (New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1948), 277. Ray Bethers, Pictures, Painters, and You (New York: Pitman Publishing, 1948), 230–31 (ill.). Peyton Boswell Jr., “Painting and Sculpture: Art and Industry,” in The Americana Annual: An Encyclopedia of the Events of 1946, ed. A. H. McDannald (New York: Americana Corporation, 1947), 529. Edward Alden Jewell, “Eyes to the Left: ‘Modern’ Painting Dominates in State Department and Pepsi-Cola Selections,” New York Times, October 6, 1946. “Art Brings Block-Long Line in Fifth Ave.,” New York Times, October 2, 1946. Jo Gibbs, “Pepsi-Cola Presents ‘Paintings of the Year’—Divides $15,000 Purse,” Art Digest 21 (October 1, 1946): 9 (ill.). Elizabeth McCausland, “Robert Gwathmey,” Magazine of Art 39 (April 1946): 149 (ill.). Moses Soyer, “About Artists by Artists: Robert Gwathmey,” New Masses 55 (February 19, 1946): 27. Pepsi-Cola Company’s Third Annual Exhibition: Paintings of the Year (New York: National Academy of Design, 1946), n.p. (ill.). Paul Robeson, introductory essay, in Robert Gwathmey (New York: ACA Gallery, 1946), n.p. (ill.). Painting in the United States, 1945 (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1945), n.p. (ill., pl. 90).