Julia Thecla

(American, 1896-1973)

This

, 1936

opaque watercolor, characol and on cardboard

signed Julia Thecla and dated (lower right)

19 1/4 x 14 inches.

Provenance:

Mr. and Mrs. David Porter, Wainscott, New York

Exhibited:

New York, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, Romantic Painting in America, Novermber 7, 1943-February 6, 1944

Springfield, Illinois, Illinois State Museum, Julia Thecla 1886-1973, November 11, 1984-February 17, 1985; Chicago, Illinois, the State of Illinois Art Gallery, June 2-July 25, 1986

Chicago, Illinois, the Art Club of Chicago, A Home for Surrealism: Fantastic Painting in Midcentury Chicago, June 7-August 18, 2018

Literature:

James Thrall Soby & Dorothy C. Miller, Romantic Painting in America, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1943, no. 191. illus. p. 128

Maureen A. McKenna, Julia Thecla 1886-1973, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois, 1984, no. 14, illus. p. 4

Janine Mileaf & Susan F. Rossen, Robert Cozzolino, Adam Jolles, Joanna Pawlik & Marin Sarvé-Tarr, A Home for Surrealism: Fantastic Painting in Midcentury Chicago, the University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 2018, no. 34, illus. p. 109

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