Models III, 1968

Not on View

Medium

charcoal and black ink wash on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 48.26 × 62.55 cm (19 × 24 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of William H. G. FitzGerald, Desmond FitzGerald, and B. Francis Saul II)

Accession Number

2015.19.2704

Artists / Makers

Elmer Nelson Bischoff (artist) American, 1916 - 1991

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: E.B. '68; upper left verso in charcoal: #1; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: Models III; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 2619 H

Provenance

(Staempfli Gallery, New York); The Honorable William H.G. FitzGerald, Mr. Desmond FitzGerald, and Mr. B. Francis Saul II, c/o The New York Studio School; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Staempfli Gallery
The Honorable William H.G. Fitzgerald, Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald, a

Exhibition History

1980: The Human Form: Contemporary American Figure Drawing and the Academic Tradition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980, no. 52

1982: Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982-1983

1985: Elmer Bischoff, Laguna Art Museum, California, 1985

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 213, no. 1432.

1985: Frash, Robert M. Elmer Bischoff. Laguna Beach, CA: Laguna Art Museum, 1985: p. 29, fig. 11.