Circus Elephants

Provenance

(Walker Gallery, New York); purchased by Mrs. Grace Hendrick Eustis [later Mrs. Neill Phillips, d. 1966], New York, by 1939;[1] her second husband, Admiral Neill Phillips [d. 1978], Upperville, Virginia; gift 1976 to NGA. [1] According to Peyton Boswell Jr., _Modern American Painting_, New York, 1939: 205.

Circus Elephants

Curry, John Steuart

1932

Accession Number

1976.50.1

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 64 x 91.8 cm (25 3/16 x 36 1/8 in.) | framed: 92.1 x 120 x 3.8 cm (36 1/4 x 47 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Admiral Neill Phillips in memory of Grace Hendrick Phillips