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4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2011.
Design for Living
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2011.
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2011.

Design for Living

Artist Kenneth Harris (American, 1904-1983)
CultureAmerican
Date20th century
MediumWatercolor | Paper
DimensionsOverall: 13 3/4 x 20 1/4 in. (34.9 x 51.4 cm)
Overall, Frame: 25 x 32 1/4 in. (63.5 x 81.9 cm)
InscribedSigned by the artist. Label on reverse: "From 11th Annual Contemporary North Carolina and Virginia Oil and Watercolor Paintings/An Anna Cogswell Wood Purchase Prize/February 1-22, 1953". Framer's insurance sticker also on reverse: "$150.00".
Credit LineGift of Irene Leache Memorial
Object number53.10.2
On View
Not on view
DescriptionWatercolor painting in an oak frame. Depicts a rundown city street scene.

Exhibition History"History Purchases Acquired to Show Local Subject Matter", Summer Show of Museum 1958, Gallery H; "Norfolk Story in Painting" exhibition at Norfolk Arena, Oct. 25-27, 1968; Hung in Chamber of Commerce, November 1968; City Treasurer's Office, 5/23/74-8/24/77. "Kenneth Harris Watercolors," Chrysler Museum of Art, September 22, 1998 - January 10, 1999. (Community Gallery)