About the Artwork
Blue Bird
1943
Morris Graves
1910-2001
American
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Gouache on paper
Sheet: 20 1/2 × 30 inches (52.1 × 76.2 cm) Framed: 26 3/8 × 32 3/8 × 1 1/2 inches (67 × 82.2 × 3.8 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of John S. Newberry
65.198
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Markings
Signed, lower right: M. Graves
Provenance
Willard Gallery (New York, New York, USA).John S. Newberry (New York, New York, USA);
1965-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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American Birds and Their Painters and Sculptors. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1945, p. 7.
Collection of John S. Newberry. Exh. cat., Cranbrook Academy of Art Galleries. Bloomfield Hills, 1950, no. 8.
Drawings and Watercolors, 19th and 20th Centuries, from the Collection of John S. Newberry. Exh. cat., Fogg Museum of Art. Cambridge, MA, 1948, p. 22.
Drawings and Watercolors from the Collection of John S. Newberry. Exh. cat., Buchholz Gallery. New York, 1948, no. 16.
The John S. Newberry Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, p. 41 (ill.).
Newberry Collection. Exh. cat., California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco, 1948, no. 738.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Morris Graves, Blue Bird, 1943, gouache on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of John S. Newberry, 65.198.
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