Sylvia Mangold
Portrayal

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Artist Sylvia Mangold(American, born 1938)American, born 1938

CultureAmerican

Titles

Portrayal

Date1979

PlaceUnited States

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions61 3/8 × 61 3/8 in. (155.9 × 155.9 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the National Endowment for the Arts with matching gifts from Mrs. Roy S. O'Connor, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Kitchen III, Nina Cullinan, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan M. Avery, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Fitch, Alice McPherson, M.D., Joan H. Fleming, and Carl Detering in honor of Phyllis Childs Detering, Carl Detering, Jr., and Will Childs Detering

Object number80.86

Not on view

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Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Object Type

PAINTING

Provenance[Texas Gallery, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 1980.
Exhibition History"Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Nocturnal Paintings," Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, April 25–June 14, 1981.

"Modern American Paintings," Pinacotheque Nationale Musee Alexandre Soutzos, Athens, September 20–November 7, 1982.

"Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Paintings 1965–1982," Madison Art Center, Madison, November 20, 1982–1 May 1983; Traveled to Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, March 6–April 17, 1983.

"The Paintings of Sylvia Plimack Mangold," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, September 24–December 31, 1994; Traveled to Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, January 22–April 2, 1995; Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, Houston, September 9–October 22, 1995; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 11, 1995–February 25, 1996.

"Selections from the Museum's Collection: Post-War Painting and Sculpture," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 5–September 5, 2016.

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