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Mother And Child

Object Details

Provenance
Source unrecorded (acquired before 1950)
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, to 17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Exhibition History
BONESTELL GALLERY, New York. "Tofel," 7-19 April 1941, cat. no. 17.
RAMAPO COLLEGE ART GALLERY, Mahwah, New Jersey. "Jennings Tofel," 6 November-20 December 1983, cat. no. 4, p. 28. TOUR: UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 16 January-17 February 1984; HIRAM COLLEGE ART GALLERY, Hiram, Ohio, 1-30 April 1984.
JEWISH MUSEUM, New York. "Painting a Place in America: Jewish Artists in New York, 1900-1945," 15 May-29 September 1991, fig. 81, cat. no. 118, p. 155.
Published References
GRANICK, ARTHUR. Jennings Tofel (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1976), ill.
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Artist
Jennings Tofel, American, b. Poland, 1891–1959
Date
(c. 1926)
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
24 X 22 1/8 IN. (61.0 X 56.0 CM.)
Type
Painting

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