Lot 5: Bradley Walker Tomlin (1899-1953)

To The Sea
signed 'Tomlin' (upper right)
oil on canvas
30 x 37 in. (76.2 x 94 cm.)
Painted in 1942.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Painting, Watercolor, Drawing, and Prints, November 1942-January 1943.
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, 18th Biennial Exhibition, March-May 1943, no. 133.
The Art Institute of Chicago, 54th Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture, October-December 1943, no. 182.
New York, Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery, Bradley Walker Tomlin, January 1944, no. 4.
The Art Institute of Chicago, First Exhibition of the Encyclopedia Britannica Collection of Contemporary American Paintings, April 1945, no. 113 (on five-year nationwide tour).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The New Decade: 35 American Painters and Sculptors, May-August 1955, p.84-86.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; North Carolina Museum of Art; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Los Angeles, Art Galleries of the University of California; Pasadena Art Museum; Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego; San Francisco Museum of Art; and Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Bradley Walker Tomlin, September-November 1957, p. 23, no. 11 (illustrated in color).
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Continuity and Change, April-May 1962, no. 158
Hempstead, Hofstra University, The Emily Lowe Gallery; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; Lincoln, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery; and Berkeley, University of California, University Art Museum, Bradley Walker Tomlin, A Retrospective View, April 1975-May 1976, p. 56, no. 32 (illustrated in color).

Art Digest, April 1945, p. 40 (illustrated); June 1945 and September 1945, p. 5 and p. 25.
Ashbery, "Tomlin: The Pleasures of Color", Art News, October 1957, p. 29.
"Backstage at the Britannica", Art Digest, April 1945 (illustrated).
R. Coates, "The Art Galleries (The Whitney and the War)", The New Yorker, December 5, 1942, p. 67.
Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Contemporary American Painting, 1945, p. 113.
Larkin, Art and Life in America, New York, 1949, p. 466.
M. Sawin, "Bradley Walker Tomlin", Arts (Magazine), November 1957, p. 23.
"Six Painters", American Artist, April 1945, p. 21 (illustrated).
G. Pagano, Encyclopedia Britannia Collection of Contemporary American Painting, Chicago, 1946.

Frank K.M. Rehn Gallery, New York
Encyclopedia Britannica Collection, Chicago
The Estate of William Benton, Southport, Connecticut

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