Iris II

Artist Gretchen Dow Simpson American, b.1939

Date1998

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsStretcher: 23 x 20 in. (58.4 x 50.8 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineBequest to The Murray Collection in honor of Terry A. Murray

Object number2013.1.12

On View

Not on view

Collections

Modern and Contemporary Art
American Paintings & Sculpture

SignedVertically along the lower right edge, on purple petal: "Gretchen Dow Simpson"

InscribedOn verso "Gretchen Dow Simpson/IRIS II/1998/oil on canvas"

DescriptionFrom series of Iris paintings. A purple blossom of the "Siberian" type iris with yellow highlight. The thinner, more attenuated type rather than the heavier, large, rounded blossoms of the hybrids.Exhibition History"Women Modernists". Feibes & Schmitt Gallery, The Hyde Collection, January 19, 2019 - May 12, 2019ProvenanceNew York, NY, Jane S. Murray
2013, Glens Falls, NY, The Hyde Collection Trust