Title: | TAC_61_Old Hawaiian Riding (Cow Puncher) |
Circa: | c. 1936 |
Size: | 52.5" x 38" |
Medium: | Oil on canvas |
The Madge Tennent works form an intact permanent collection and are not for sale. The Tennent Art Foundation made Hawaii Preparatory Academy the custodian of the artist's work to conserve, preserve, and utilize for education in perpetuity. |
“Sometimes there would be the very real agony of hurt pride, that only a painter knows, when, as the saying goes, a jury would ‘kick out’ pictures, considered in their joint opinion, as unfit to be in the exhibition they had been sent to grace. On one such occasion, when Old Hawaiian Riding and Hawaiian Bride had been invited, and what was much rarer, their freight pre-paid from Honolulu, to the Oakland Annual Exhibition, and then became refused two weeks later at San Francisco Civic Museum, I received a letter from Diego Rivera. He said he was “mad” at the San Francisco jury’s stupidity, and added ‘Had I been on the jury refusing your pictures, I would have RENOUNCED at once.’”
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