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Title:Dressing Room
Artist:Guy Pène du Bois (American, New York 1884–1958 Boston, Massachusetts)
Date:1934
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:20 1/4 × 16 1/8 in. (51.4 × 41 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Carroll J. Post, 1942
Object Number:42.31.1
Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left): Guy Pène du Bois 34
Mrs. Carroll J. Post, Norfolk, Conn. (until 1942; her gift to MMA)
Brooklyn. James Madison High School. "New York School-Museum Program," May 1–June 21, 1945, no catalogue.
Brooklyn. Samuel J. Tilden High School. "Modern American Masters (New York School-Museum Program)," November 1945, no catalogue.
Brooklyn. Fort Hamilton High School. "Modern American Masters (New York School-Museum Program)," December 1945, no catalogue.
Bronx. William Howard Taft High School. "Modern American Masters (New York School-Museum Program)," January 1946, no catalogue.
New York. Benjamin Franklin High School. "Modern American Masters (New York School-Museum Program)," February 1946, no catalogue.
Bronx. DeWitt Clinton High School. "Modern American Masters (New York School-Museum Program)," March 1946, no catalogue.
Bronx. Walton High School. "Modern American Masters (New York School-Museum Program)," April 1946, no catalogue.
Queens. John Adams High School. "Modern American Masters (New York School-Museum Program)," May–June 1946, no catalogue.
New York. Straubenmuller Textile High School. "New York School-Museum Program," September 18–October 25, 1946, no catalogue.
Bronx. Theodore Roosevelt High School. "New York School-Museum Program," October 25–November 25, 1946, no catalogue.
Bronx. Evander Childs High School. "New York School-Museum Program," November 25, 1946–January 8, 1947, no catalogue.
Bronx. Christopher Columbus High School. "New York School-Museum Program," January 8–February 20, 1947, no catalogue.
New York. Julia Richman High School. "New York School-Museum Program," February 20–March 20, 1947, no catalogue.
Brooklyn. New Utrecht High School. "New York School-Museum Program," March 20–April 30, 1947, no catalogue.
Brooklyn. Bay Ridge High School. "New York School-Museum Program," April 30–June 6, 1947, no catalogue [on view until May 19, 1947].
Brooklyn. Lafayette High School. "New York School-Museum Program," September 25–October 17, 1947, no catalogue.
Brooklyn. Erasmus Hall High School. "New York School-Museum Program," October 17–November 17, 1947, no catalogue.
Brooklyn. Midwood High School. "New York School-Museum Program," November 17, 1947–January 5, 1948, no catalogue.
New York. Washington Irving High School. "New York School-Museum Program," January 5–February 5, 1948, no catalogue.
Bronx High School of Science. "New York School-Museum Program," February 5–March 8, 1948, no catalogue.
Bronx. James Monroe High School. "New York School-Museum Program," March 8–April 7, 1948, no catalogue.
Brooklyn. Franklin K. Lane High School. "New York School-Museum Program," April 7–May 6, 1948, no catalogue.
Brooklyn. Girls' High School. "New York School-Museum Program," May 6–June 10, 1948, no catalogue.
Circulating exhibition. "20 Contemporary American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," August 1949–April 1950, including the following venues.
Nashville, Tenn. Watkins Institute. "20 Contemporary American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 7–31, 1949, no catalogue.
Columbia. Maxcy College, University of South Carolina. "20 Contemporary American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," November 9–December 3, 1949, no catalogue.
Charles L. Fontenay. "Dr. Dutch's Talk, Preview Mark Exhibit Opening." Nashville Tennessean (October 8, 1949), p. 5.
Guy Pène du Bois (American, New York 1884–1958 Boston, Massachusetts)
1924
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