Exhibition History"Director's Choice," thirty-four works of art purchased with the Director's Discretionary Fund, 1973-1982 - a gift to the Des Moines Art Center from the Gardner and Florence Call Cowles Foundation, Sept. 13 - No . 13, 1983 (Because of the long break in the schedule of the Baxter Art Gallery's traveling exhibition, the drawing was returned to the DMAC for inclusion in this exh.)
"Rockne Krebs: A Retrospective of Drawings, 1965-1982," Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, Feb. 2 - Mar. 6, 1983, (circulated to: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Dec. 17, 1983 - Jan. 29, 1984; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, Mar. 29 - May 12, 1984)
Published References"Director's Choice," Des Moines Art Center, 1983, exh. cat. b/w ill.
DES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. pp.132 & 133
"Rockne Krebs: A Retrospective of Drawings, 1965 - 1982," Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 1983, exh. cat. no.51
"Rockne Krebs: A Retrospective of Drawings, 1965-1982," Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, Feb. 2 - Mar. 6, 1983, (circulated to: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Dec. 17, 1983 - Jan. 29, 1984; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, Mar. 29 - May 12, 1984)
Published References"Director's Choice," Des Moines Art Center, 1983, exh. cat. b/w ill.
DES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. pp.132 & 133
"Rockne Krebs: A Retrospective of Drawings, 1965 - 1982," Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 1983, exh. cat. no.51
DimensionsSheet: 19 × 23 7/8 in. (48.3 × 60.6 cm)
Image: 17 1/8 × 22 1/16 in. (43.5 × 56 cm)
Image: 17 1/8 × 22 1/16 in. (43.5 × 56 cm)
Accession Number 1974.81
Classificationswork on paper
InscriptionsRockne Krebs 1/74 (above left center in image in pencil)
Titled: Part of image (upper left in green tempera)
ProvenanceArtist. (Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.); Des Moines Art Center [purchased from the previous, 1974]
Tan Lejos de Dios; Tan Cercas de los Estados Unidos (So Far from God; So Close to the United States)
Luis Alfonso Jimenez
2001