arthur Durston (1897-1938)
Mother & Child, 1936
Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 in. (91.44 x 76.2 cm)
PROVENANCE
The artist
James Manderson Tyrrell and Vivian Tyrrell, Laguna Beach and Paradise, CA (purchased from the artist) Jim Flood (Tyrrell's nephew) by inheritance, 1992
James Snidle
Edenhurst Gallery, Palm Desert, CA, c. 1995
The John and Susan Horseman Collection, 2009
EXHIBITIONS
Los Angeles, Los Angeles Art Museum, Progressive Painters of Southern California, 12/01/1934-12/31/1933, cat. no. 10
Hollywood, CA, Centaur Gallery, Arthur Durston, 1934
Los Angeles, Los Angeles Art Museum, Seventeenth Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1936, cat. no. 24
Los Angeles, Foundation of Western Art, Fifth Annual Exhibition of California Figure Painters, 1938
Los Angeles, Stendahl Galleries, American Artists' Congress, Los Angeles Branch presents Arthur Durston's Memorial Exhibition, 1939
Los Angeles, Foundation of Western Art, Only Yesterday: Southern California Artists in Retrospect, 1940-1896, 1942, cat. no. 9
Memphis, TN, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Modern Dialect: American Paintings from the John and Susan Horseman Collection, 04/27/2012 - 07/15/2012, Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensberg, PA, 8/12/2012 November 4, 11/4/2012, Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, 12/2/2012-2/24/2013, Columbus Museum of Art, OH, 3/24/2013-6/16/2013, Flint Institute of Art, 07/13/2013-09/22/2013, The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, 11/3/2013-1/26/2014
Memphis, TN, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Painting American Progress: Selections from the Kattner Collection and More, 11/01/2015 - 04/03/2016
PUBLICATIONS
"Art Exhibitions Reviewed," Los Angeles Times, 1934
Arthur Millier. “Review of Durston and Kauffman exhibition.” Los Angeles Times,1959
Emanuel Parker. “Unique Museum Rising in Pasadena.” Pasadena Star News, 2001, A1, col. 2
Julie Novarese Pierotti. Modern Dialect: American Paintings from the John and Susan Horseman Collection. Memphis, TN: Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 2012, 63, plate 23