Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2009
The Year
Acquisitions
Art of the Americas: July 2008–June 2009
Prelude
1943
Agnes Pelton
Overall: 96.5 x 76.2 cm (38 x 30 in.)
Oil on canvas
Classification: Paintings
Accession number: 2009.339
Location: Out on loan
Provenance/Ownership History: Possession of the artist until at least 1954; unknown private collection; to Jay Caldwell Gallery, Manlius, NY, 2002; to Peyton-Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2008; to MFA, 2009, purchase
The Hayden Collection—Charles Henry Hayden Fund and Tompkins Collection—Arthur Gordan Tompkins Fund