Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2011

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Art of the Americas: July 2009–June 2011


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Big Wind in Georgia

about 1933–1936
Hale Aspacio Woodruff
57.8 x 76.2 cm (22 3/4 x 30 in.)
Oil on Masonite

Classification: Paintings

Accession number: 2011.1827

Location: Melvin Blake and Frank Purnell Gallery (20th-century Art: Places)

Provenance/Ownership History: Acquired from the artist by Mrs. M. Travis Grubbs, New Zealand; by 1997, with Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York; April 1997, sold by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery to John Axelrod, Boston; 2011, sold by Axelrod to the MFA. (Accession date: June 22, 2011)

The John Axelrod Collection—Frank B. Bemis Fund, Charles H. Bayley Fund, and The Heritage Fund for a Diverse Collection