Forrest Bess
Bread and Potatoes

ArtistAmerican, 1911–1977
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Bread and Potatoes
Datec. 1938
PlaceTexas, United States
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 16 × 18 in. (40.6 × 45.7 cm)
Frame: 17 × 19 × 1 3/4 in. (43.2 × 48.3 × 4.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist
Object number39.149
Non exposé

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ProvenanceThe artist; given to MFAH, 1939.
Exhibition History"Direction and Diversity: Twentieth Century Art in the Museum Collection,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 21–September 3, 1988.

"Tradition and Innovation: A Museum Celebration of Texas Art," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 17–May 6, 1990.

"Early Houston Art in Houston Collections," The Heritage Society, Houston, May 2–June 28, 2006.

"Forrest Bess: Seeing the Invisible,” The Menil Collection, Houston, April 11–August 18, 2013; Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, September 29, 2013–January 5, 2014; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, February 16–May 11, 2014; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, June 11–September 14, 2014.

"Texas Modernism(s): Houston and Dallas in the 1930s," Julia Ideson Building, Houston Public Library, August 27–November 5, 2022.

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