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Collection Online as of September 22, 2023

My First View of the Congo Forest

1930

Paul B. Travis

(American, 1891–1975)

America, Ohio, Cleveland

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 76.9 x 101.9 cm (30 1/4 x 40 1/8 in.)

Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1930.2083

© Estate of Elisabeth Travis Dreyfuss

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed lower left: Travis, 1930

Citations
Paul B. Travis Entry Card to 1930 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
Agard, Walter R.. “Cleveland's Artistic Appreciation of Africa.” The American Magazine of Art 23, no. 3 (September 1931): 203-209. Reproduced: p. 209
Kraynak, Scott, Henry Adams, Douglas Max Utter, William G. Scheele, R. A. Washington, and Mike Hudson. The Heart of Cleveland. Shaker Hts, OH: Red Giant Books, 2018. Reproduced: P. 26, fig. 21
Exhibition history

The May Show: 12th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 22-June 1, 1930).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1930.2083