Frances Johnson Skinner
Exercise for a Rainy Afternoon

Exercise for a Rainy Afternoon
Exercise for a Rainy Afternoon
Exercise for a Rainy Afternoon
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Exercise for a Rainy Afternoon
Datec. 1942
PlaceHouston, Texas, United States
MediumOil on Masonite
Dimensions20 × 23 15/16 in. (50.8 × 60.8 cm)
Frame: 26 1/4 × 30 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (66.7 × 76.8 × 3.8 cm)
Credit Line18th Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, museum purchase prize, 1943
Object number43.5
Not on view

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Department
American Art
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"18th Annual Exhibition of Works by Houston Artists," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 14–28, 1943.

"Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890–1945," Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, October 14, 1995–January 28, 1996; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, March 2–May 26, 1996; Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, June 29–September 22, 1996; Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, October 26, 1996–January 19, 1997.

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