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Provenance
Elizabeth (née Moffett) Johnson (1924-2006), South Orleans, Massachusetts, daughter of the artist.
Private collection, Seekonk, Massachusetts.
Vose Galleries, LLC, Boston, Massachusetts, acquired from the above, January 1991.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, January 1992.
Exhibited
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Twenty-Eight Annual International Exhibition of Painting, October 17-December 8, 1929, n.p., no. 50.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Tenth Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Painting, June 6-July 6, 1930.
Art Institute of Chicago, American Paintings and Sculpture: Forty-Third Annual Exhibition, October 13-December 14, 1930, n.p., no. 123, illustrated.
(probably) Springfield, Massachusetts, Springfield Museum, First Annual New England Summer Colonies Exhibition, October 9-November 4, 1934.
Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum, Ross Moffett 1888-1971, May 30-July 6, 1975, n.p., no. 23, and elsewhere.
Syracuse, New York, Everson Museum of Art, Provincetown, A Painter's Place, April 1-June 26, 1977, and elsewhere.
Literature
The Springfield Daily Republican, October 10, 1934, illustrated.
R.A. Kuchta, D.G. Seckler, Provincetown Painters: 1890s-1970s, Syracuse, New York, 1977, p. 151, illustrated.