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The Chess Game, (painting). Artist:  Poor, Henry Varnum, 1888-1970, painter. Title:  The Chess Game, (painting). Dates:  1939-1940. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  36 x 30 1/4 in. Inscription:  (Lower left:) H. V. Poor signed Description:  Portrait of the artist's children, Anne and Peter, playing a game of chess on a sofa, with Peter seated in the foreground, his body turned to the right, his left hand holding a small chessboard, and his gaze directed down as his sister reaches over to make a move. Subject:  Portrait female -- Poor, Anne -- Waist length Portrait male -- Poor, Peter -- Knee length Recreation -- Sport & Play -- Chess Architecture interior -- Domestic -- House Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Wichita Art Museum, 619 Stackman Drive, Wichita, Kansas 67203 Accession Number: 2003.5 Provenance:  Poor, Henry Varnum, estate of, References:  "Henry Varnum Poor, 1887-1970: A Retrospective Exhibition," University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, 1983, no. 33. Boswell, Peyton, Jr., "Varnum Poor," New York, NY Hyperion Press Harper and Brothers, 1941, frontispiece. Gleissner, Stephen, and Novelene Ross, "Wichita Art Museum: 75 Years of American Art," Wichita, KS: Wichita Art Museum, 2009, pl. 74. "Survey of American Paintings," Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, 1940, no. 253. Illustration:  "Henry Varnum Poor, 1887-1970: A Retrospective Exhibition," University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, 1983, no. 33. Boswell, Peyton, Jr., "Varnum Poor," New York, NY Hyperion Press Harper and Brothers, 1941, frontispiece. Gleissner, Stephen, and Novelene Ross, "Wichita Art Museum: 75 Years of American Art," Wichita, KS: Wichita Art Museum, 2009, pl. 74. "Survey of American Paintings," Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, 1940, pl. 93. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 87080029   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 87080029 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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