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Exhibition History"Selected Cowles Family Gifts to the Permanent Collection," Des Moines Art Center, July 30 - Sept. 11, 1994

"Highlights from Three Collections: The Bohen, Coffin and Cowles Collections," Des Moines Art Center, July 8 - Sept. 11, 1983

"The Great American Storytellers," Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Nov. 9, 1979 - Jan. 13, 1980

"The Kirsch Years: 1936-1958," Des Moines Art Center, Jan. 7 - Feb. 10, 1974; University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, Feb. 25 - Mar. 31, 1974

"American Painting 1900 to Present," Inaugural Exhibition, Tyler Musuem of Art, TX, Mar. 21 - Apr. 28, 1971

"Twentieth Century American Paintings," Grand Rapids Art Musuem, MI, Apr. 1967

"Art Day," Winterset, July 25, 1959

Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Dec. 5, 1958 - Jan. 31, 1959

Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Apr. 1957

Cedar Falls Art Association, Iowa State Teachers College, Feb. 28 - Mar. 18, 1956
Published ReferencesDES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER, Dec. 28, 1952, ill.

"The Kirsch Years: 1936 - 1958," Des Moines Art Center and University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, 1974, exh. cat. no.40

"The Great American Storytellers," Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, 1979, exh. cat. no.28

TRANSMISSION MAGAZINE, 1959

DES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. & b/w ill. p.140, pl.80
DimensionsSheet (/image): 22 × 30 in. (55.9 × 76.2 cm)
Accession Number 1952.24
Classificationswork on paper
CopyrightARS
SignedJ. Levine (l,r gouache)
ProvenanceArtist. (Downtown Gallery, New York). John and Elizabeth Cowles, Minneapolis; Des Moines Art Center [gift of the previous, 1952]
Literary Coterie
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines