
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.
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