On View
Not on viewObject number1977/8.37
Company for Supper
Maker
Dale William Nichols
(American, 1904-1995)
Date1948
Mediumlithograph
Dimensionsimage: 9 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (24.1 × 34.3 cm)
sheet: 12 1/2 × 16 1/8 in. (31.8 × 41 cm)
mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
sheet: 12 1/2 × 16 1/8 in. (31.8 × 41 cm)
mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Cornelia Robinson
Exhibition History"36 Regionalist prints from the KIA," Dennos Museum Center (Sept. 8 - Nov. 24, 1996), Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, MI (May 17 - July 13, 1997), Midland Center for the Arts (Aug. 2 - Sept. 21, 1997).Label TextNichols painted his first canvas in Nebraska in the winter of 1933. He set us his easel in the remains of a cornfield and had to make frequent trips to the house to keep from freezing in the below-zero weather. Company for Supper shows a festive reunion between two farm families on a cold Nebraska winter day, at a time when the only reliable means of transportation through the heavy snow was a wood sledge and team of horses.
