Cloud Trails
- Artist
- John Rogers Cox, American, 1915–1990
- Date
- 1944
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- made in
- United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Paintings
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 333
- Dimensions
- 20 1/4 x 27 1/8 in. (51.4 x 68.9 cm)
framed: 27 3/4 x 34 3/4 in. (70.5 x 88.3 cm) - Credit Line
- Friends Endowment Fund and funds given by Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield and Eleanor J. Moore
- Rights
- © John Rogers Cox
- Object Number
- 3:2006
NOTES
Rows of precisely painted wheat stubble, sheaves of grain, and an abandoned barn covered in brightly colored advertisements share a seemingly endless field. Overhead, a moon and carefully depicted cirrus and cumulus clouds hang low in a brilliant blue sky. Such views were commonplace along the rural roadways of the 1930s and 1940s. However, the intensity of detail and color, with no appearance of humanity, casts this everyday scene as something more than a passing view, inspired perhaps by a dream or memory.
Provenance
- still in 1990
Donise Cox, Wenatchee, WA, acquired from the artist [1]
Unknown Dealer, acquired from Donise Cox
Private Collection, Michigan, acquired from unknown dealer
- 2004
Unknown Dealer, Chicago, IL, acquired from private collection
2004 - 2006
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, NY, acquired from unknown dealer
2006 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. [2]
Notes:
The main sources for this provenance are emails from Eric Baumgartner of Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., in which he describes the gallery's provenance research and the results of that research [emails, dated January 27, 2006 and February 14, 2006, SLAM document files].
[1] Donise Cox was the artist's third wife.
[2] Invoice from Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., January 27, 2006 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, February 21, 2006; and the Minutes of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, April 11, 2006.
Donise Cox, Wenatchee, WA, acquired from the artist [1]
Unknown Dealer, acquired from Donise Cox
Private Collection, Michigan, acquired from unknown dealer
- 2004
Unknown Dealer, Chicago, IL, acquired from private collection
2004 - 2006
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, NY, acquired from unknown dealer
2006 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. [2]
Notes:
The main sources for this provenance are emails from Eric Baumgartner of Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., in which he describes the gallery's provenance research and the results of that research [emails, dated January 27, 2006 and February 14, 2006, SLAM document files].
[1] Donise Cox was the artist's third wife.
[2] Invoice from Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., January 27, 2006 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, February 21, 2006; and the Minutes of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, April 11, 2006.
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