Robert Ormerod Preusser
Composition No. 1

Composition No. 1

Composition No. 1
Composition No. 1
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Composition No. 1
Date1940
PlaceHouston, Texas, United States
MediumCasein, tempera, ink, wax crayon and graphite on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 21 5/16 × 14 7/16 in. (54.1 × 36.7 cm)
Credit Line16th Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, museum purchase prize, 1940
Object number40.212
Non exposé

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Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"1980 Houston Area Exhibition," Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, The University of Houston, June 7–July 27, 1980.

"Around Midcentury in the United States," The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Aug. 20, 2021 - Jan. 2, 2022. [Second Installation/Light-Sensitive Rotation: Kinder Building 207: No Catalog]
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso center in pencil: up / [arrow pointing up] / Composition No 1
recto lower right in ink: Robert Preusser 1940

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