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The Attorney

The Attorney

pre-1923

John Covert

Born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1882; died Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1960

Oil on composition board
23 7/8 x 25 5/8 in. (60.6 x 65.1cm)
Gift of Paul Denby Mackie in memory of Kathleen Lawler and Nona Lawler Mackie
59.150
Provenance: The artist to Kathleen Lawler (1881-1952), probably 1923; by bequest to her sister, Nona Lawler Mackie, Bellevue, Washington, 1952; by bequest to her husband, Paul Denby Mackie, Bellevue, Washington; to SAM, 1959
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryDallas, Texas, Dallas Museum for Contemporary Art, American Genius in Review # 1 [Murphy, Schamberg, Benrimo, Russell, Covert], May 11-June 19, 1960.

University Park, Pennsylvania, Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, "John Covert Rediscovered", February 11-April 20, 2003 (Lancaster, Pennsylvania, The Demuth Foundation, August 1-September 21, 2003; Annville, Pennsylvania, Lebanon Valley College, Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, August 28-October 12, 2003). Text by Leo G. Mazow and Michael R. Taylor. Cat. no. 12, pp. 31, 48, reproduced p. 49.

Published ReferencesAskew, Rual. "Bypassed Artists to Gain Fresh Study," The Dallas Morning News, April 26, 1960: Section 1, p. 12, reproduced.

Askew, Rual. "Mementos Current and From Recall," The Dallas Morning News, May 15, 1960: Section 5, p. 4.

Lycette, Diana Yates. "John R. Covert, American Dadist," M.A. Thesis, University of Washington, 1973, pp. 26-27, 35, reproduced plate 17.



Mazow, Leo G., "John Covert, Tetraphilia, and the Game of Time", 2007, The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc., p. 40.

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