John Graham Coughtry, Late Afternoon Interior, 1957

John Graham Coughtry Canadian, 1931-1999

Late Afternoon Interior, 1957

Oil and acrylic on canvas

40 x 40 1/8 in.
101.6 x 101.9 cm.

Signed “Coughtry" and dated “57” lower right; signed and dated “Graham Coughtry March, 1957” and titled verso; inscribed with original Hirschhorn inventory numbers verso

Visualisation

Provenance

Collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, acquired ca. 1958

Gift to the Trustees of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 1966

In a 1961 article on Coughtry published in Canadian Art, critic Robert Fulford wrote that 'among the best Coughtry paintings... are those thick, warm interiors of 1957 and 1958, in...

In a 1961 article on Coughtry published in Canadian Art, critic Robert Fulford wrote that "among the best Coughtry paintings... are those thick, warm interiors of 1957 and 1958, in which he conveyed superbly the visual equivalent of the feeling, or touch, of the materials that attracted him - cloth, wood, flesh. Those rich, glowing canvases, with their softly combined reds and blues, translated the message of impressionism into the language of mid-century North America." (Robert Fulford, "A Survey of the Work of 24 Young Canadian Artists," Canadian Art no. 71 (Jan/Feb 1961), p. 20)

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