Emerson S. Woelffer
Red Kiss

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Artist Emerson S. WoelfferAmerican, 1914–2003

CultureAmerican

Titles

Red Kiss

Date1961

MediumOil and collage on canvas

Dimensions36 × 30 in. (91.4 × 76.2 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Alan and Fannie Hall Leslie

Object number2007.185

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Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Object Type

PAINTING

Provenance[Harcourts Gallery, San Francisco]; Alan and Fannie Hall Leslie, Palm Springs; bequeathed to MFAH, 2007.
Exhibition HistoryEXHIBITED:
Pomona College Gallery, Montgomery Art Building, Claremont, California, November 3 - 30, 1969
The Pasadena Art Museum, 10/24/?

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Hand-written notation paper label on verso: "NOTE: CRACKS IN BLACK PAINT OF BACKGROUND OF "RED KISS" / WERE INTENTIONALLY INDUCED BY THE ARTIST IN THE / PROCESS OF PAINTING, AND AR BY NO MEANS TO BE 'REPAIRED' IN ANY CONSERVATION EFFORT. / Fannie Hall Leslie"

No visible signature - back label from Pomona College Gallery states that it is signed and dated, recto lower left.

Printed paper labels on verso stretchers:
"POMONA COLLEGE GALLERY / Montgomery Art Building / Claremont, California / Emerson Woelffer / RED KISS / 1961/ ... / Signed lower left and dated / Exhibited, Nov. 3 - 30, 1969"
"Munn's Picture Frames, Inc. / ...Los Angeles 69 / Telephones: OLympia 2-1344 / ... "

"THE PASADENA ART MUSEUM / Title 196...(faded) / Artist EMERSON WOELFF... (faded) / Lender ... (faded) / Exhibited 10/24"

"WOELFFER ... / INVENTORY # EW 17x"

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