Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2009
The Year
Acquisitions
Art of the Americas: July 2008–June 2009
The Juggler #1
about 1964
Hughie Lee-Smith
Height x width: 32 x 24 in. (81.3 x 61 cm)
Oil on canvas
Classification: Paintings
Accession number: 2008.1404
Provenance/Ownership History: About 1964, the artist. Private collection, N. Y. October 7, 2008, African-American Fine Art Sale #2156, Swann Galleries, New York, lot 40, to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 17, 2008)
A. Shuman Collection—Abraham Shuman Fund and Sophie M. Friedman Fund