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SHERIDAN SQUARE

measurements
24 by 20 1/2 in.

alternate measurements
61 by 52 cm.

signed Niles Spencer and dated '22, l.r.; signed Niles Spencer, titled Sheridan Square and dated 1922 on the stretcher

oil on canvas

Condition Note: Canvas is not lined. SURFACE: in good condition; scattered, minor craquelure UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: some repaints scattered along edges, a spot at upper left (in sky); two pentimenti at upper right (may like artist's alterative renderings of chimneys); a couple of small repaints just left of signature (does not affect it)

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EXHIBITED

Lexington, Kentucky, University of Kentucky Art Gallery; Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; Maine, Portland Museum of Art; New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art; Pennsylvania, Allentown Art Museum; Manchester, New Hampshire, The Currier Gallery of Art; Providence, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Niles Spencer , 1965, no. 39, p. 32
Gainesville, University Gallery, University of Florida, The American Scene: Paintings by Twenty-seven Artists of the Twentieth Century, 1979, no. 30, illustrated

LITERATURE

Pascale Le Thorel-Daviot, Petit Dictionaire des Artistes Moderne, Paris, 1999, p. 256, illustrated Trusts and Estate Magazine, cover illustration, January, 2002