Lot 113: Bradley Walker Tomlin (1899-1953)

Number 3 signed and dated 'b. Tomlin '50' (upper right) oil on canvas 22 3/8 x 34 in. (56.8 x 86.3 cm.) Painted in 1950. PROVENANCE Betty Parsons Gallery, New York V.V. Rankine, Bethesda, 1962 EXHIBITION (possibly) Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Exhibition of Paintings by Bradley Tomlin and Other Abstract Expressionists from the Collection, March 1955. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Los Angeles, Art Galleries of the University of California; Pasadena Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Art and Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Bradley Walker Tomlin, 1957, pp. 45 and 59, no. 31 (illustrated). Hempstead, Hofstra University, The Emily Lowe Gallery; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; Lincoln, University of Nebraska, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Berkeley, University of California, University Art Museum, Bradley Walker Tomlin A Retrospective View, April 1975-May 1976, pp. 48-49 and 122, no. 60 (illustrated).