Donald Sultan
Mimosa

ArtistAmerican, born 1951
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Mimosa
Date2003
MediumPastel with graphite, flocking, and white paint on laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 19 1/2 × 27 3/8 in. (49.5 × 69.5 cm)
Frame: 25 5/8 × 34 3/4 × 1 1/2 in. (65.1 × 88.3 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Frances Marzio
Object number2024.1242
Non exposé

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ProvenanceThe artist, c. 2003; collection of Peter and Frances Parker Marzio (1947-2022)1, before 2022; Estate of Frances Parker Marzio, 2022-2023; given to MFAH, 2023.

1. Three years after marrying Peter Marzio in 1979, Frances Parker Marzio and her husband moved to Houston, where Peter assumed the position of Director at the MFAH. Putting to use an education received at the University of Miami and George Washington University, as well as experience gained as a fellow at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Frances served as the curator of antiquities at the MFAH from the early 1990s through 2016. During her tenure, she curated many exhibitions and wrote or co-wrote multiple books, and she coupled her curatorial work with responsibilities as an aide to the museum’s Board of Trustees.
Exhibition HistoryNone known for these impressions
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Titled, dated, and signed in graphite, left edge: Mimosa May 10 2003 DS [cursive] [vertical]
Verso: [inaccessible]
Recto: Titled, dated, and initialed in graphite vertically along left edge of sheet: Mimosa May 10 2003 D.S. [cursive]
Catalogue raisonnéNone

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