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

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Twentieth

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Signedbottom left: gwathmey

Exhibition HistoryInnaugural Installation, 20th Century American Art Galleries (F103), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1 – present; 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 and traveling, September 5 – October 17, 1999; 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 and traveling, 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 and traveling, October 1 – 31, 1946; 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; Acquired in 1993 from Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New YorkPublished References“Art Brings Block-Long Line in Fifth Ave.,” New York Times, October 2, 1946. Bethers, Ray, Pictures, Painters, and You (New York: Pitman Publishing, 1948), 230–31 (ill.). Boswell Jr., Peyton, “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. Duncan, Joyce, “Nikki Giovanni,” in Great American Writers: Twentieth Century, ed. R. Baird Shuman (New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2002), 640 (ill., color). Falk, Peter Hastings, ed., Record of the Carnegie Institute’s International Exhibitions, 1896–1996 (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1998), 139. Gibbs, Jo, “Pepsi-Cola Presents ‘Paintings of the Year’—Divides $15,000 Purse,” Art Digest 21 (October 1, 1946): 9 (ill.). “Goings on About Town—Art: Robert Gwathmey,” New Yorker, June 4, 1990, 18; June 11, 1990, 14; June 18, 1990, 14. Guth, Hans P., and Gabriele Rico, Discovering Literature: Stories, Poems, Plays, 3rd ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 2003), III vi (ill., color). Hooton, Bruce, 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). Jewell, Edward Alden, “Eyes to the Left: ‘Modern’ Painting Dominates in State Department and Pepsi-Cola Selections,” New York Times, October 6, 1946. Kammen, Michael, 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). Lines, Ruth, “The Visual History of the American Family” (Master’s thesis, University of Michigan–Flint, 1987), 46, n.p. (ill., pl. 18). Marks, Claude, “Robert Gwathmey,” in World Artists: 1950–1980 (New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1984), 342. McCausland, Elizabeth, “Robert Gwathmey,” Magazine of Art 39 (April 1946): 149 (ill.). Monro, Isabel Stevenson 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. Mother and Child in Modern Art (New York: American Federation of Arts, 1963), n.p. Painting in the United States, 1945 (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1945), n.p. (ill., pl. 90). Pepsi-Cola Company’s Third Annual Exhibition: Paintings of the Year (New York: National Academy of Design, 1946), n.p. (ill.). Robert Gwathmey: Master Painter (Youngstown, Ohio: Butler Institute of American Art, 1999), 33, 36. Robeson, Paul, introductory essay, in Robert Gwathmey (New York: ACA Gallery, 1946), n.p. (ill.). Robinson, Joyce Henri et al. A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 124-127, 146n12, 185-186 (ill. 125, 185). Soyer, Moses, “About Artists by Artists: Robert Gwathmey,” New Masses 55 (February 19, 1946): 27. Sternberg, Harry, Composition: The Anatomy of Picture Making (New York: Pitman Publishing, 1958), n.p. (ill.).