Exhibition History"Selected Cowles Family Gifts to the Permanent Collection," Des Moines Art Center, July 30 - Sept. 11, 1994
"Diversity of Line: A Selection from the Permanent Collection," Des Moines Art Center, Nov. 16, 1990 - Apr. 7, 1991
"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 - Nov. 13, 1983
"Drawing Distinctions/Tendencies in American Drawings of the Seventies," Louisianna Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, Aug. 15 - Sept. 20, 1981, organized by Alfred Kren; (Circulated to: Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Oct. 4 - Nov. 15, 1981; Staedtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany, Feb. 17 - Apr. 11, 1982; Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany, Sept. 25 - Nov. 17, 1982)
Published ReferencesGallery Guide for "Diversity of Line," Des Moines Art Center, Nov. 1990
"Director's Choice," Des Moines Art Center, 1983, exh. cat. b/w ill.
"Drawing Distinction / Tendancies in American Drawings of the Seventies," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, 1981, exh. cat. no.67, ill. p.163
DES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. pp.195 & 196
"Diversity of Line: A Selection from the Permanent Collection," Des Moines Art Center, Nov. 16, 1990 - Apr. 7, 1991
"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 - Nov. 13, 1983
"Drawing Distinctions/Tendencies in American Drawings of the Seventies," Louisianna Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, Aug. 15 - Sept. 20, 1981, organized by Alfred Kren; (Circulated to: Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Oct. 4 - Nov. 15, 1981; Staedtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany, Feb. 17 - Apr. 11, 1982; Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany, Sept. 25 - Nov. 17, 1982)
Published ReferencesGallery Guide for "Diversity of Line," Des Moines Art Center, Nov. 1990
"Director's Choice," Des Moines Art Center, 1983, exh. cat. b/w ill.
"Drawing Distinction / Tendancies in American Drawings of the Seventies," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, 1981, exh. cat. no.67, ill. p.163
DES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. pp.195 & 196
DimensionsFrame: 38 1/4 × 49 1/4 × 1 1/4 in. (97.2 × 125.1 × 3.2 cm)
Sheet: 35 × 45 3/4 in. (88.9 × 116.2 cm)
Sheet: 35 × 45 3/4 in. (88.9 × 116.2 cm)
Accession Number 1978.49
Classificationswork on paper
Copyright©Joel Shapiro/Artists Right Society (ARS), New York
InscriptionsNot inscribed
ProvenanceArtist. Peter Bonnier, Stockholm, Sweden; (Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago); Des Moines Art Center [purchased from the previous, 1978]
Paul Gauguin
1892, reworked ca. 1894
