Wharf in Ludington

Arts of the Americas

1939

Aaron Bohrod
American, 1907–1992

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Aaron Bohrod
Title: Wharf in Ludington
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1939
Medium: Oil on pressboard
Inscriptions: Signed and dated lower center: Aaron Bohrod 39
Dimensions: 58 × 78 cm (23 × 31 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Sylvia Simons Sights
Reference Number: 2010.553

Howard Devree, “Art and Democracy,” Magazine of Art 32, 5 (May 1939): 268, as Wharf, Ludington.
Donald J. Bear, “American Art Today,” The Art Digest 13 (June 1939): 22 (ill.), 23.

New York, Associated American Artists Galleries, Aaron Bohrod, Oct. 23–Nov. 4, 1939, cat. 10, as View of Ludington.
New York World’s Fair, American Art Today, Apr. 30, 1939–Oct. 27, 1940, cat. 46.

The artist, 1939. Sylvia Sights (born Simons, 1926–2009), Chicago, by 2009; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2010.

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