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William Zorach (1887-1966)
Plum Tree, Winter
signed 'William Zorach' (lower right)--signed again and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
watercolor and charcoal on paper
16 x 23¼ in. (40.6 x 59.1 cm.)
Provenance
The Downtown Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the late owners from the above, 1959.
Literature
J. Barnitz, et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Art of the Western Hemisphere, vol. II, New York, 1988, pp. 97, 99, no. 47, illustrated (as Woods in Winter).
Exhibited
Wallingford, Connecticut, The Choate School, January 3-February 1, 1965.
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William Zorach likely painted the present work in the woods at Robinhood Cove near his home in Maine, where the family would spend summers but also sometimes visit for Christmas.

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