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Chair and Shirt
1963
29.875 in HIGH x 25.5 in WIDE
(75.88 cm HIGH x 64.77 cm WIDE)
Gift of Simona and Bill Martin
2008.88.2

wood frame (can be changed)
Bruce McGaw / 1963 - painted on canvas verso in cursive script at center.
Label attached to verso, TR corner: "S.F.A.I 82nd Annual Exhibition / Fill in and Attach Firmly to Back of Work / Name: Bruce McGaw / Address: 1022 Ventura Ave / City and State: Albany 6, Calif / Title of Entry: Chair and Shirt / Medium: Oil Paint/canvas / Price or N.F.S.: $100.00" A large "R" is marked over the label in orange ink.
San Francisco Art Institute 82nd Annual Exhibition, 1963





This is a still life oil painting on canvas. The image shows a wooden armchair centered in the composition facing the viewer with a blue shirt draped over the chair at upper left. The background indicates the setting is a corner of a room with muted blue walls and a reddish-brown floor.

Info per Phil Linhares: "[shirt] said to be Richard Diebenkorn's shirt when he and McGaw shared a studio."

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