Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Patrick Cather, Shoal Creek, Alabama, in memory of his beloved life partner Bo Brown (1957-1992), Indian Springs School Class of '76, AFI.75.2021
Signature Recto, in rocks on shore at left of image: PS 1950
Verso: Sam Steward
Inscription Verso:
Lower left corner, in black ink: ISR
Center, in blue ink: Fecit / --Sam Steward
Lower right, stamped in red ink: ROSS-BOARD / SCRATCH / BOARD / EXTRA HEAVY / MADE IN U.S.A.
Upper left, in black ink: (1950)
Photocopy of verso of object, with handwritten addition, removed from the work and now encapsulated in object file: Note: signed by the artist / on the verso of the scratch- / board
Provenance Dealer Burton Weiss (1945-2011), San Francisco; purchased by Patrick Cather (born 1947), Shoal Creek, Alabama; gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 2021
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