Proletarian

Artist Gordon Samstag (American, 1906 - 1990)

Date1934

DimensionsFrame: 55 × 49 1/8 × 1 3/4 in. (139.7 × 124.8 × 4.4 cm)

MediumOil on canvas.

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1935.34

Not on View

Published ReferencesToledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, p. 96, pl. 195.

The Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, no. 73, Dec. 1935, pp. 7-9, repr.

"Gordon Samstag Exhibition at the Montrose Gallery," Art Digest, vol. 10, April 15, 1936, p. 13, repr.

Samstag: the 1995 Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships, Underdale (Australia), 1995, repr. p. [5] (col.).

Wolfe, Ross, ed., The Samstag Legacy: An Artist's Bequest, Adelaide, South Australia, Samstag Museum, 2016, p. 68-69, repr. p. 55.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, 22nd Annual, 1935, no. 54.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1935.

New York, National Academy of Art, 1936.

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1936 International Exhibition, 1936.

New York, Montross, Gordon Samstag, 1936.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings Acquired by the Toledo Museum 1901-1951, 1951.

Wichita Art Museum, The Neglected Generation of American Realist Painters: 1930-1948, 1981, repr. fig. 43, p. 35.

American Federation of Arts, New York, N.Y. 1983.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.1983.

New York, Gallery 1199; Boston University Art Gallery; Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum; Laurel, MS, Lauren Rogers Library; Youngstown, Butler Institute; West Palm Beach, Norton Gallery, Social Concern and Urban Realism, 1983-1984, no. 38, p. 78, repr.

Owensboro Museum of Art, Owensboro, Kentucky. 1984.