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Robert Colescott

Three Graces at the Bathers Pool: Venus is Still Venus

1984

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Robert Colescott

Three Graces at the Bathers Pool: Venus is Still Venus

1984

Physical Qualities Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 114 1/16 in. (228.6 x 289.7 cm.)
Credit Line Contemporary Art Endowment Fund
Object Number 1989.39
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1989; Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
San Jose Museum of Art, "Robert Colescott: A Retrospective, 1975-1986," April 5-May 31, 1987; circulated to Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, September 11-November 7, 1987; The Baltimore Museum of Art, January 12-February 28, 1988; Portland Art Museum (Ore.), March 18-May 8, 1988; Akron Art Museum, June 18-August 14, 1988; Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, September 10-November 5, 1988; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, December 3, 1988-January 28, 1989; The New Museum, New York, February 25-April 22, 1989; Seattle Art Museum, May 20-July 15, 1989 (exhibited as "At the Bathers Pool (Venus is Still Venus)")

Helen Molesworth, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, "This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s;" February 11 - June 3 2012; The Walker Art Center June 2 - September 9, 2012; and the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Octber 2 2012 - January 3 2013, exh. cat. pp. 53, 68-69, ill. pp. 70-71.
Lowery S. Sims and Mitchell D. Kahan, "Robert Colescott: A Retrospective, 1975-1986," San Jose: San Jose Museum of Art, 1987, p. 8 and 31, fig. 27, p. 22, (published as "At the Bathers Pool (Venus is Still Venus)").
Leslie Berger, “Body Image,” “New York Times,” July 18, 2000, Science Times section, D7, ill.

Inscribed: VERSO: signed and dated on stretcher corner brace, LLQ, "THREE GRACES/AT THE BATHERS POOL:/VENUS iS STiLL/VENUS./©/Robert Colescott/JULY 1985"; inscribed on tacking margin, at center of BE, "VENUS iS STiLL VENUS".

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Robert Colescott

born Oakland, CA 1925; died Tucson, AZ 2009
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