Emerson S. Woelffer
Red Kiss

Red Kiss
Red Kiss
Red Kiss
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
Not on view

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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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