Lot 220: RACKSTRAW DOWNES Am. b. 1939

RACKSTRAW DOWNES Am. b. 1939 Sproul Bros. Lumber Yard, Searsmont, Maine Signed "R.D." l.r. Pencil 11 1/2 × 41 1/2 in. sight (29.2 × 105.4 cm sight)

11 1/2 × 41 1/2 in. sight (29.2 × 105.4 cm sight)

Pencil

Exhibited A Heritage Renewed...Representative Drawing Today, 1976, page 52, illustration #20, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California, March 1-April 17, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 26 -August 7, 1983; Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, August 21-October 9, 1983; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado, November 5-December 18, 2003

Literature Rackstraw Downes by Sanford Schwartz, Richard Storrs, and Rackstraw Downes, the oil for which the current lot is a study, illustrated in color, p. 69 The oil is in the permanent collection of the Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC..