id: 170093 accession number: 2012.31 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2012.31 updated: 2024-08-08 15:18:09.593000 Evasion, 1947. Jared French (American, 1905–1988). Tempera on canvas mounted to panel; unframed: 54.5 x 29.2 x 0.7 cm (21 7/16 x 11 1/2 x 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2012.31 title: Evasion title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1947 creation date earliest: 1947 creation date latest: 1947 current location: 226B American Modern creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: tempera on canvas mounted to panel department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jared French (American, 1905–1988) - artist --- measurements: Unframed: 54.5 x 29.2 x 0.7 cm (21 7/16 x 11 1/2 x 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Inscribed upper left recto: "Jared French" Inscribed verso: "JARED FRENCH / egg yolk tempera / EVASION" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (December 6, 1947–January 25, 1948).', 'opening_date': '1947-12-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Symbolic Realism in American Painting. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (July 18–August 18, 1950).', 'opening_date': '1950-07-18T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Paintings and Drawings by Jared French. Edwin Hewitt Gallery, New York (April 21–May 12, 1955).', 'opening_date': '1955-04-21T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Jared French: Paintings and Drawings. Robert Isaacson Gallery, New York (February 6–24, 1962).', 'opening_date': '1962-02-06T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Art. Academy Art Gallery, National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York ( March 3–April 2, 1967).', 'opening_date': '1967-03-03T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Jared French: 25 Years of Paintings and Drawings from 1944 to 1969. Banfer Gallery, New York (February 19–March 8, 1969).', 'opening_date': '1969-02-19T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Close Encounters: The Art of Paul Cadmus, Jared French and George Tooker. Midtown Galleries, New York (February 22–April 7, 1990).', 'opening_date': '1990-04-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Rediscovery of Jared French. Midtown Payson Galleries, New York (April 21–May 29, 1992); Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, MA (October 2–November 29, 1992).', 'opening_date': '1992-04-21T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Villa America: American Moderns, 1900-1950. Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (June 4–October 2, 2005); Minneapolis Institute of Arts (December 4, 2005–February 26, 2006); Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX (March 15–June 4, 2006); Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (September 23–December 31, 2006).', 'opening_date': '2005-06-04T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Margaret French [1906-1998] (Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, NY, 1988, sold to Myron Kunin, 1991) date: 1988-1991 footnotes: citations: Myron Kunin [1925-2013], Minneapolis, MN date: 1991-2011 footnotes: *
Ownership variously listed under Regis Corporation Collection, Minneapolis; and Curtis Galleries, Minneapolis 
citations: (Alexandre Fine Art, New York, NY, sold to Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: 2011 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2012- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting.New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1947. page number: Reproduced: p. 8 url: Kirstein, Lincoln. Symbolic Realism in American Painting, 1940-1950. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1950. page number: Mentioned: p. 8 url: Munroe, Eleanor C. "Jared French." Art News 54 (April 1955) page number: Mentioned: p. 47 url: Lonngren, Lillian. "Jared French." Art News 61 (March 1962) page number: Mentioned: p. 14; Reproduced: p. 14 url: French, Jared "Artists on their Art." Art International 12 (April 20, 1968) page number: Mentioned: p. 54 url: Jared French: 25 Years of Paintings and Drawings from 1944 to 1969. New York: Banfer Gallery, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 1-2 url: Berman, Greta, and Jeffrey Wechsler. Realism and Realities: The Other Side of American Painting, 1940-1960 : [Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at] Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey, January 17-March 26, 1982, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, April 15-June 13, 1982, the Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, September 7-October 18, 1982. [New Brunswick, N.J.]: Rutgers University Art Gallery, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 96 url: Grimes, Nancy. "Paul Cadmus, Jared French, George Tooker," Art News 89 (September 1990) page number: Reproduced: p. 159 url: French, Jared, and Jeffrey Wechsler. The Rediscovery of Jared French. New York: Midtown Payson Galleries, 1992. page number: Mentioned: p. 8, 14-15; Reproduced: p. 5 url: Grimes,Nancy. "French's Symbolic Figuration," Art in America 80 (November 1992) page number: Mentioned: p. 114; Reproduced: p. 13 url: Grimes, Nancy, and Jared French. Jared French's Myths. San Francisco, Calif: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1993. page number: Reproduced: pl. 21 url: Lucie-Smith, Edward. American Realism. New York: Abrams, 1994. page number: Mentioned: p. 150-151; Reproduced: p. 150 url: Cole, Mark."Jared French (1905-1988)," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Delaware, 1999. page number: Mentioned: 215, 269-270, 395; Reproduced: p. 513 url: Ōe, Kenzaburō. Le jeu du siècle. Paris: Gallimard, 2000, illus. cover (detail). page number: Cover detail url: Leddick, David. Intimate Companions: A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and Their Circle. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. page number: Mentioned: p. 223 url: Edgecombe, Rodney. "Jared French's Iconic Enigmas," The Gay and Lesbian Review 11, July-August 2004. page number: Mentioned: p. 18 url: Armstrong, Elizabeth, and William C. Agee. Villa America: American Moderns, 1900-1950. Newport Beach, Calif: Orange County Museum of Art, 2005. page number: Mentioned: p. 29-30, 128; Reproduced: p. 30, 128 url: Panzetta, Alfonso. Jared French by Jared French: 600 Opere indetite dal fondo italiano dell'artista. Turin, Italy: Allemandi, 2010. page number: Mentioned: p. 25, 32-33, 134, 328, 350, 365; Reproduced: 134, 328 url: Litt, Steven. "Museum's East Wing Quietly Reopens, Revealing Impressive Changes," Plain Dealer, August 18, 2012. page number: Mentioned: p. E3 url: Grant, Daniel. "Museums by the Numbers: 2012 in Review," Antiques and Fine Art 12 (Winter / Spring 2013) page number: Mentioned: p. 153 url: Cole, Mark. "Acquistions 2012," Cleveland Art 53 (March / April 2013). page number: Mentioned: p. 22 url: Artistic Excellence: Acquisitions 2012-14. Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned: p. 10, 49 url: Schreiber, Michael.One-Man Show: The Life and Art of Bernard Perlin. Berlin, Germany: Bruno Gmuender, 2016. page number: Mentioned: p. 67 url: Miller, Angela. "Sinners all: the queer world of Paul Cadmus's seven deadly sins." American Art 36, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 111-136. page number: reproduced p.129; mentioned p.128-129 url: --- IMAGES