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George Randolph Barse

Night and the Waning Day

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George Randolph Barse 

American 1861 - 1938

Night and the Waning Day


signed, inscribed and dated lower left: G.R. BARSE - JR 1X97 / New York. Copyright.; signed, inscribed, and dated on the reverse: NIGHT & THE WANING DAY / G.R. BARSE - JR / 1897 (with two thumbprints)

oil on canvas

canvas: 80 ¼ by 40 ¼ in.; 203.8 by 102.2 cm

framed: 89 ⅞ by 49 ¾ in.; 228.3 by 126.7 cm

Purchased from the Society of American Artist's Exhibition by Samuel T. Shaw, Esq, New York, 1898

Sale, American Art Association, New York, 21-22 January, 1926, lot 203

Where acquired by Fred Buscher

Sale, Christie's, New York, 29 May 1987, lot 86A

Sale, Christie’s, New York, 12 September 2006, lot 51

Where acquired by the present owner

New York, Society of American Artist’s: Twentieth Annual Exhibition, 19 March-23 April 1898

St. Louis, Missouri, The Universal Exhibition, 1904, no. 36 (lent by Samuel T. Shaw)

Kenyon Cox, “Some American Figure-Painters,” The Cosmopolitan, vol. XXXII, November 1901-April 1902, pp. 591-593, illustrated 

Official Catalogue of Exhibitors: Universal Exposition, exh. cat., St. Louis 1904, p. 24, no. 36

In 1898, George Randolph Barse received the Shaw Fund Prize from the Society of American Artists for the present work, which was subsequently acquired by Samuel Shaw and remained in his collects ion until his sale at the American Art Association in 1926.