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Robert Gwathmey (1903-1988)Harmonizing signed 'Gwathmey' (lower left) and inscribed with title (on the reverse of the artist's original frame) oil on canvas 30 x 25 in. (76 x 63.5 cm.) Painted in 1979.FootnotesProvenance Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York, acquired from the artist. Acquired from the above by the late owners, 1987. Exhibited New York, National Academy of Design, n.d. Alexandria, Louisiana, The Alexandria Museum/Visual Art Center, The Rhythm of Life: Bearden, Gwathmey and Lawrence, February 3-March 10, 1984, n.p., and elsewhere. East Hampton, New York, Vered Gallery, 1985. Literature P. Braff, "Forcefulness That Demands Attention," The New York Times, August 4, 1985, vol. CXXXIV, no. 46,491, sec. 21, p. 14, illustrated. C.K. Piehl, "Robert Gwathmey: Harvest of Black and White," The Georgia Review, Athens, Georgia, Fall 1985, vol. XXXIX, no. 3, n.p., illustrated. M. Kammen, Robert Gwathmey The Life and Art of a Passionate Observer, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1999, pp. 89, 183, 196, 227, 236. When Phyllis Braff of the New York times reviewed Vered Gallery's 1985 exhibition of Gwathmey's work, she admired Harmonizing as "A good example of the artist's interest in aspects of Southern farm-worker life, also demonstrates his use of outlined summary forms, vivid, glowing color, expressive distortion, tipped planes, bold patterns and surface designs that emphasize rhythmic linear repetitions. The work is quite special, too, in the way it places its musician figures against a distant passageway to create a dynamic push-pull relationship between Modernist flattened forms and a Renaissance illusion of perspective." (P. Braff, "Forcefulness That Demands Attention," The New York Times, August 4, 1985, vol. CXXXIV, no. 46,491, sec. 21, p. 14)Saleroom noticesPlease note there is updated exhibition history available on this lot. New York, National Academy of Design, One Hundred Fifty-Fifth Annual Exhibition, February 28-March 30, 1980.