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DON FREEMAN (1908-1978) Trickery at the Polls 21 3/4 x 25 1/8 in. (55.2 x 63.8 cm.) image 1
DON FREEMAN (1908-1978) Trickery at the Polls 21 3/4 x 25 1/8 in. (55.2 x 63.8 cm.) image 2
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Lot 63

DON FREEMAN
(1908-1978)
Trickery at the Polls 21 3/4 x 25 1/8 in. (55.2 x 63.8 cm.)

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DON FREEMAN (1908-1978)

Trickery at the Polls
signed 'Don Freeman' (lower right) and inscribed with title (on the reverse) and inscribed 'DEDICATED / TO HIS HONOR / FIORELLO LA GUARDIA / MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas laid down on Masonite
21 3/4 x 25 1/8 in. (55.2 x 63.8 cm.)

Footnotes

Provenance
Acquired by the present owner by circa 2000s.

Exhibited
The Art Institute of Chicago, Forty-Seventh Annual Exhibition, October 22-December 6, 1936, n.p., no. 58.

Literature
E. Jewett, "Annual National Exhibition Current at Art Institute: Critic Finds Work in the Sculpture Division That Is Imposing and Original," Chicago Sunday Tribune, October 25, 1936, vol. XCV, no. 43, pt. 8, p. 5.
"Art Throughout America, Chicago: Forty-seventh Annual Exhibition, Art News, New York, October 31, 1936, vol. 35, iss. 5, p. 21.
"Chicago's 47th Annual Reflects the Trend of the Times," The Art Digest, New York, November 1936, vol. XI, no. 3, p. 6.
Bulletin of the Art Institute Chicago, April 1937, vol. XXXI, no. 4, p. 88.
P. Herring, The Politics of Democracy: American Parties in Action, New York, 1965, p. xxvii, illustrated. (as Trickery at the Polls, Election Night on the East Side)
P.H. Falk, A.A. Bien, eds., The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago: 1888-1950, Madison, Connecticut, 1990, p. 337, no. 58.

The present work was awarded Honorable Mention for Figure Subject at the Art Institute of Chicago's Forty-Seventh Annual Exhibition.

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