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Country Road
Artist
Richard Mayhew
(American, 1924 - 2024)
Date1983
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 23-7/8 x19-7/8 inches (60.7 x 50.4 cm), conservation mat: frame: 25-1/8 x 21-3/16 x 1-1/2 inches (64 x 53.8 x 3.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer
Object number2019.91
Collections
ClassificationsPainting
Object NamePainting
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
Not on viewCentury
- Twentieth
Signedbottom right: Mayhew
Inscribedverso top right on tacking edge: Mayhew / COUNTRY ROAD 24 x 20 1983
Exhibition HistoryLooking at Who We Are: The Palmer at Fifty, Palmer Museum of Art, September 23–December 22, 2022
An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005
Richard Mayhew: Recent Paintings, Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, April 17–June 19, 1983ProvenanceCollection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1983 from the Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University
Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift from the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 197 (ill., color).
An Intimate Eye (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 14 (no. 55).