Ruth Powers Ortlieb

Bird on Thermos Bottle

c. 1939

A blue bird perches on the handle of a green metal canister beside a cup.
A blue bird perches on the handle of a green metal canister beside a cup.

Ruth Powers Ortlieb, Bird on Thermos Bottle, c. 1939. Oil on canvas, overall: 27 3/16 × 22 1/8 in. (69.1 × 56.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Tom Armstrong Purchase Fund and partial gift of CW American Modernism 2023.168

Recto

Not on view

Date
c. 1939

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 27 3/16 × 22 1/8 in. (69.1 × 56.2 cm)

Accession number
2023.168

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Tom Armstrong Purchase Fund and partial gift of CW American Modernism

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

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