Tern's Eggs
Tern's Eggs

© Estate of Loren MacIver

Tern's Eggs
Tern's Eggs

On view

Conservation Studios
Paul & Heather Haaga Conservations Studios
Paper and Objects

Tern's Eggs,

1934

Loren MacIver, American, 1909–1998
y1988-19

Information

Title
Tern's Eggs
Dates

1934

Maker
Loren MacIver
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
20.3 x 15.6 cm (8 x 6 1/8 in.) frame: 32.5 x 28 x 4 cm (12 13/16 x 11 x 1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Margaret Scolari Barr
Object Number
y1988-19
Signatures
Signed, lower right: MacIver
Culture
American
Type
paintings, oil paintings
Subject
shell, sand, egg, still lifes

MoMA [1]; Alfred H. Barr, Jr., and Margaret (Scolari) Barr by 1953 [2]; donated to the Princeton University Art Museum by Margaret (Scolari) Barr, 1988. [1] Michael Asher, Painting and sculpture from the Museum of Modern Art: catalog of deaccessions, 1929 through 1998, New York 1999, p. 11. [2] As indicated by the label at the top left corner of the back, which lists the Barrs as lenders of the artwork to the Whitney Museum. The museum organized an exhibition on MacIver in 1953, and the painting is listed in the related catalog, Loren MacIver, I. Rice Pereira, New York 1953, p. 34, n. 6.

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