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Original inventory list for Coughtry's 1959 solo exhibition at Greenwich Gallery, Toronto
Original inventory list for Coughtry's 1959 solo exhibition at Greenwich Gallery, Toronto
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1966 inventory record showing Coughtry paintings in the collection of the Hirschhorn Museum
1966 inventory record showing Coughtry paintings in the collection of the Hirschhorn Museum
John Graham Coughtry Canadian, 1931-1999
Portrait No. 5, 1959
Oil on canvas
40 x 28 in.
101.6 x 71.1 cm.
101.6 x 71.1 cm.
Inscribed indistinctly lower right; inscribed with the original Hirschhorn inventory numbers verso
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Provenance
Greenwich Gallery, Toronto
Collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, acquired ca. 1959
Gift to the Trustees of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 1966
Exhibitions
Graham Coughtry: Painting and Drawings at The Greenwich Gallery, 736 Bay Street, Toronto (January 30, 1959 - February 20, 1959)Publications
For discussion of Coughtry's late 1950s portraits, see Fulford, Robert, "Graham Coughtry," Canadian Art 18 (Jan-Feb 1961), 20-21.
In a 1961 article on Coughtry published in Canadian Art, critic Robert Fulford wrote that 'in a 1959 one-man show [Coughtry] exhibited a series of what he called 'portraits.' These...
In a 1961 article on Coughtry published in Canadian Art, critic Robert Fulford wrote that "in a 1959 one-man show [Coughtry] exhibited a series of what he called 'portraits.' These were not portraits in any usual sense - that is, they did not describe individual faces - but rather the impressions of the idea of the portrait: the idea of confrontation between painter and subject. [T]he surfaces were lush, varied and altogether admirable" (Robert Fulford, "A Survey of the Work of 24 Young Canadian Artists," Canadian Art no. 71 (Jan/Feb 1961), p. 20)
