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Kathy Wong
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Charles Rollo Peters (1862-1928)
signed 'Charles Rollo Peters' (lower right)
oil on canvas
32 1/2 x 55in
Painted prior to 1916.
Footnotes
Provenance
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1916.
Sale, Bonhams and Butterfields, San Francisco and Los Angeles, California and Western Paintings & Sculpture, August 17, 2010, lot 44 (sold to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco).
Exhibited
Oakland, Oakland Art Museum, n.d.
Literature
M. C. Driscoll, The M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California. Story of its foundation and the objects of its founder. Description of its various galleries. Brief sketches of the most notable exhibits, with accounts of their origin and of the periods of history and industries represented by them, San Francisco, Board of Park Commissioners, circa 1921, p. 40.
G. Hailey, E. H. Schwartz (ed.), California Art Research (digital edition), WPA Project 1379, O.P. 65-3-3632, First Series, Volume 10, 1937, p. 75.
The present work was one of twenty-eight works acquired by the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum with a bequest from Alice Skae in 1916, established for California art. The work was described as 'one of his characteristic night studies in deeply luminous tones of blue with dusky shadows and the inevitable point of sharply brilliant yellow light that gives vividness to the picture.' 1
1 Driscoll, 40.




















