{ "data": { "id": 165161, "accession_number": "2007.159.c", "share_license_status": "Copyrighted", "tombstone": "Under the Gowanus on Hamilton Avenue: Part 3: At the Corner of Court Street Looking Southeast, 1999. Rackstraw Downes (American, 1939-). Oil on canvas; overall: 532.8 cm (209 3/4 in.); part 3: 46.6 x 89 cm (18 3/8 x 35 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 2007.159.c. \u00a9 Rackstraw Downes / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York", "current_location": null, "title": "Under the Gowanus on Hamilton Avenue: Part 3: At the Corner of Court Street Looking Southeast", "creation_date": "1999", "creation_date_earliest": 1999, "creation_date_latest": 1999, "artists_tags": [ "male" ], "culture": [ "America" ], "technique": "oil on canvas", "support_materials": [], "department": "Contemporary Art", "collection": "CONTEMP - Painting", "type": "Painting", "measurements": "Overall: 532.8 cm (209 3/4 in.); Part 3: 46.6 x 89 cm (18 3/8 x 35 1/16 in.)", "dimensions": { "overall": { "length": 5.328 }, "part 3": { "height": 0.466, "width": 0.89 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": "\u00a9 Rackstraw Downes / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York", "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "Part 1: Pedestrian Crossing at W.9th Street Looking Northwest, o/c, \r\n15 x 31-1/4\" Painting in 4parts, overall length at 27\" intervals=209-3/4\". Lower edges align\" \r\n\r\nTyped label adhered to verso: \"Betty Cunningham Gallery, 541 West 25th Street, New York, New York 10001 RD 11105, To be installed in 27\" intervals\" \r\n\r\nTyped artists label adhered to verso: \"Robert Miller Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001, phone 212-366-4774, fax 212-366-4454/Rackstraw Downes, Under the Gowanus on Hamilton Avenue, 1999, Oil on Canvas, 18-1/4\" x 209-3/4\", 46.4 x 532.8cm, (Down-0012) Part 1\"\r\n\r\nWritten in blue-gray paint in lower right corner: \"Rackstraw Downes (signed)\"\r\n\r\nPart 2: \"Under the Gowanus on Hamilton Avenue, 1999, Part 2: Pedestrian Crossing at Garnet Street Looking Southeast, o/c, 18 1/4\" x 35\", Painting in 4 parts, overall length at 27\" intervals=209 3/4\". Lower edges align.\"\r\n\r\nTyped label adhered to verso: \"Betty Cunningham Gallery, 541 West 25th Street, New York, New York 10001 RD 11105, To be installed in 27\" intervals\" \r\n\r\nTyped artists label adhered to verso: \"Robert Miller Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001, phone 212-366-4774, fax 212-366-4454/Rackstraw Downes, Under the Gowanus on Hamilton Avenue, 1999, Oil on Canvas, 18-1/4\" x 209-3/4\", 46.4 x 532.8cm, (Down-0012) Part 1\"\r\n\r\nWritten in blue-gray paint in lower right corner: \"Rackstraw Downes (signed)\"\r\n\r\nPart 3: Typed label adhered to verso: \"Betty Cunningham Gallery, 541 West 25th Street, New York, New York 10001 RD 11105, To be installed in 27\" intervals\" \r\n\r\nTyped artists label adhered to verso: \"Robert Miller Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001, phone 212-366-4774, fax 212-366-4454/Rackstraw Downes, Under the Gowanus on Hamilton Avenue, 1999, Oil on Canvas, 18-1/4\" x 209-3/4\", 46.4 x 532.8cm, (Down-0012) Part 1\"\r\nPart 4: On the Median Strip at W.9th Street Looking South-East, o/c, 15 x 31-1/4\" Painting in 4parts, overall length at 27\" intervals=209-3/4\". Lower edges align\"\r\nTyped label adhered to verso: \"Betty Cunningham Gallery, 541 West 25th Street, New York, New York 10001 RD 11105, To be installed in 27\" intervals\"\r\nTyped artists label adhered to verso: \"Robert Miller Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001, phone 212-366-4774, fax 212-366-4454/Rackstraw Downes, Under the Gowanus on Hamilton Avenue, 1999, Oil on Canvas, 18-1/4\" x 209-3/4\", 46.4 x 532.8cm, (Down-0012) Part 1\"\r\n\r\nWritten in blue-gray paint in lower right corner: \"Rackstraw Downes (signed)\"\r\n", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "From the artist to Robert Miller Gallery to Bill Ainsworth to his heir to New York Dealer to Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York.", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": null } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": null, "description": null, "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60480383" ], "internet_archive": [] }, "citations": [], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.159.c", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 165161, "creators": [ { "id": 55782, "description": "Rackstraw Downes (American, 1939-)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": null, "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1939", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1 } ], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "2007-06-04T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1999, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "1999", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "part", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": "2007.159", "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:00:18.826000" } }