The Stairway, 1921
Oil on canvas, 18 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. (46.36 x 36.2 cm)

PROVENANCE

Collection of the artist
Mrs. George C. (Louise) Ault
Gift to Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, from Mrs. George Ault, 1961
Christie's, "Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Auction," May 2009, lot no. 120
The John and Susan Horseman Collection, 2009

EXHIBITIONS

New York, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, 03/11/1922 04/02/1922, cat. 31 (as "Double Stairway")

Woodstock, NY, Woodstock Art Gallery, George Ault Memorial Exhibition, 09/09/1949 – 09/28/1949

New York, Milch Galleries, George Ault Memorial Exhibition, 01/30/1950 - 02/18/1950

Berlin, Germany, Akademie der Künste, American Realism 1920-1940, 11/09/1980 – 12/28/1980

New Brunswick, NJ, Johnson and Johnson World Headquarters, American Painting of the Early Twentieth Century,  12/1984 - 02/1985

Tokyo, Japan, Isetan Museum of Art, Visions of Tomorrow: New York and American Industrialization in the 1920s and 1930s, 04/21/1988 - 05/10/1988  

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

PUBLICATIONS

Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists,. New York: Society of Independent Artists, 1922, no. 32

George Ault Memorial Exhibition. Woodstock, NY: Woodstock Art Gallery, 1949, n.p.

George Ault Memorial Exhibition. New York: Milch Galleries, 1950, n.p., cat. 1

"Memorial Exhibition at Milch Gallery." Art Digest, 24, no. 9 (February 1950), 17

American Realism, 1920-1940. Berlin: Akademie der Künste, 1980, 136, no. 4

Mainichi Shinbunsha. Visions of Tomorrow: New York and American Industrialization in the 1920s and 1930s. Tokyo: Mainichi Newspapers, 1988, 142, 187, cat. 122

Marilyn S. Kushner and Matthew Baigell. Three Hundred Years of American Painting: The Montclair Art Museum Collection. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1989, 130, cat. 113

Julie Novarese Pierotti. Modern Dialect: American Paintings from the John and Susan Horseman Collection. Memphis, TN: Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 2012, 23, 90, plate 44