About This Artwork

Charles Green Shaw
American, 1892-1974

Relief, 1937

Painted wood relief
121.9 x 152.4 cm (48 x 60 in.)
Signed and dated on verso: Charles G. Shaw 1937
Through prior acquisition of the George F. Harding Collection, 2006.81

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Washburn Gallery, Reliefs by Charles G. Shaw, Jan. 5-Feb. 3, 1979, n.p., ill.

Trenton, New Jersey State Museum, Beyond the Plane: Constructions in America, 1930-65, Oct. 8, 1983-Jan. 2, 1984, cat. 43, fig. 46; traveled to University of Maryland Art Gallery, Jan. 26-Mar. 18, 1984, and Detroit Institute of the Arts, Apr. 16-June 11, 1984.

New York, Washburn Gallery, Charles G. Shaw: Biomorphic Dimensions, Nov. 1-26, 1988, n.p., ill.

Publication History

Eric Gibson, "New York Letter: Charles G. Shaw," Art International 23, 1 (April 1979), p. 48, ill.

Buck Pennington, "The 'Floating World' in the Twenties: The Jazz Age and Charles Green Shaw" Archives of American Art Journal 20, 4 (1980), pp. 17-24, ill. p. 23.

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 114.

Ownership History

Collection of the artist; bequeathed to Charles H. Carpenter, New Canaan, CT, 1974; [Washburn Gallery, c. 1974–2006].