Gene Charlton
Eggplant

Eggplant
Eggplant
Eggplant
ArtistAmerican, 1910–1979
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Eggplant
Datec. 1942
PlaceHouston, Texas, United States
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Houston Friends of Art
Object number42.7
Not on view

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Department
American Art
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History'Hemisfair Project," San Antonio, April 6–July 15, 1968.

Mr. Bill Allen, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Capitol Fund Drive Office, October 26, 1970.

"Emma Richardson Cherry: Houston's First Modern Artist," Julia Ideson Building, Houston Public Library, February 1–May 1, 2013.

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

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