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Exhibition History"Center Ring: The Artist - Two Centuries of Circus Art," Milwaukee Art Museum, cat. no. 30, (not illus) exhibition circulated to: Columbus Museum of Art, 8/30/81-10/11/81; New York State Museum, Albany,12/11/81-3/7/82; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 4/24/83-6/6/82~

"Selected Cowles Family Gifts to the Permanent Collection," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

"From Body to Being: Reflections on the Human Image," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

"Painting in the United States 1944," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 12 - Dec. 10, 1944
Published ReferencesDMAC ANNUAL REPORT
DimensionsOverall: 27 7/8 × 30 1/2 in. (70.8 × 77.5 cm)
Accession Number 1980.28
Classificationspainting
SignedColwes (l,r oil paint)
ProvenanceArtist; (Kraushaar Galleries, New York [acquired by 1944]); Des Moines Art Center [bequest of the prior, 1980]
Snake Charmer
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Russell Cowles
1954
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Russell Cowles
1937-1938
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Russell Cowles
1942
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Russell Cowles
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Russell Cowles
1948-1949
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Russell Cowles
1938
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Russell Cowles
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Russell Cowles
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Russell Cowles
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Russell Cowles
ca. 1940
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Russell Guirl
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Russell D. Hempstead
ca. 1950