Lot 148: Henry Lee McFee (American, 1886-1953)

Henry Lee McFee (American, 1886-1953)
Corner of a Room
signed '-McFee-' (lower left)
oil on canvas
40 x 30¼ in. (28¾ x 76.8 cm.)

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, The 1936 International Exhibition of Paintings, 1936, no. 78.
Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Fifteenth Annual Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, March-May 1937, no. 39.
Paris, United States Embassy in Paris, Art in Embassies Program, State Department, 27 January 1970-27 January 1971.
Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Object as Subject, 10 December 1978-25 March 1979.
Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Art, Still Lifes of Henry McFee, 5 September-7 December 1986.

Carnegie Institute, The 1936 International Exhibition of Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1936, n.p., no. 78, illustrated.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Fifteenth Annual Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Washington D.C., 1937, p. 39, no. 52, illustrated.
A. Bury, "Oil Painting of Today," The Studio, Spring 1938, p. 106, illustrated.
Gardens, Houses and People, vol. 8, no. 3, March 1938, cover illustration.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Illustrated Handbook of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Art Objects, Washington D.C., 1939, p. 67, no. 233, illustrated.
W.S. Hall, Eyes on America: The United States as Seen by Her Artists, 1939, p. 145, illustrated.
D. Phillips, A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, vol. 2, Washington D.C., 1973, p. 123-25, illustrated.
J. Baker, Henry Lee McFee and Formalist Realism, 1920-1935, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1986, p. 120, fig. 156, illustrated.

with Frank K.M. Rehn Gallery, New York.
acquired by the present owner from the above in 1937.

Property from the Corcoran Gallery of Art to Benefit the Acquisition Fund