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Richard Estes American, born 1932

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About the Artwork

Welcome to 42nd Street (Victory Theatre)

1968

Richard Estes

born 1932

American

Unknown

Oil on masonite

Framed: 32 3/4 × 24 3/4 × 1 1/2 inches (83.2 × 62.9 × 3.8 cm) Unframed: 32 × 24 inches (81.3 × 61 cm)

Paintings

Contemporary Art after 1950

Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Friends of Modern Art in honor of the Detroit Institute of Arts Centennial

1985.30

© Richard Estes, courtesy Marlborough Gallery, New York

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Signed, below ticket booth in center: RICHARD ESTES

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Provenance

(Allan Stone Gallery, New York, New York, USA). Stephen Paine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. (Allan Stone Gallery, New York, New York, USA). Louis K. and Susan Pear Meisel, New York, New York, USA. 1986-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Meisel, Louis K. Photorealism. New York, 1980, p. 225, no. 460 (ill.).

Toyama Now '81. Exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan. Toyama, 1981, p. 27.

An Appreciation of Realism. Exh. cat., Munson-Williams Proctor Institute of Art. Utica, 1982, ill. inside front cover.

Art of 42nd Street. Ex. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1984, cover ill.

Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 3 (1986): 14, fig. 5.

Shanes, Eric. Pop Art. New York, 2009, 141.

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Richard Estes, Welcome to 42nd Street (Victory Theatre), 1968, oil on Masonite. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Friends of Modern Art in honor of the Detroit Institute of Arts Centennial, 1985.30.

Welcome to 42nd Street (Victory Theatre)
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