STOP

1964

Vern Blosum
American, 1936-2017

Status: On View, Gallery 288
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Vern Blosum
Title: STOP
Place: New York City (Object made in)
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.: 1964
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 169.55 × 121.29 (66 3/4 × 47 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Promised gift of Eric Ceputis and David W. Williams
Reference Number: Obj: 250768

Lionel Bovier, ed., Vern Blosum, exh. cat. (Zurich: JRP|Ringer, 2014), 12-13 (color ill.), 61 (color ill.).

New York, Essex Street Gallery, Vern Blosum, Sept. 8–Oct. 6, 2013, no cat.
Kunsthalle Bern, Vern Blosum, June 6–Aug. 3, 2014, no cat. no.

The artist; sold through Essex Street Gallery, New York, to Paul Leong, New York, 2013; sold through Essex Street Gallery, New York to Eric Ceputis and David W. Williams, Chicago, 2019; offered as a promised gift to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

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