Dr. Oskar Hagen and His Cat

<span>1944, Artist (John Steuart Curry) [at galleries of Associated American Artists (New York, NY)]; through inheritance to Mrs. John Steuart Curry (John Stuart Curry Estate); late 1998/early 1999, sold by dealer representing the Curry Estate to Howard W. Hosek, Jr. (Houston, TX); before 2001, consigned by Howard W. Hosek, Jr. to Martha Parrish &amp; James Reinish, Inc. (New York, NY); 7 September 2001, deposited as on-approval loan to Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art] [1]; 13 April 2018, gifted by Howard W. Hosek, Jr. to the Chazen Museum of Art<br/>[1] sent to museum by Martha Parrish &amp; James Reinish, Inc. in 2001; returned to Hosek in February 2002</span>

• Morehouse, Lucille E. "American Show at Herron Impresses." Indianapolis Star (December 31, 1944): 10. p. 10
• Riley, Maude. "Carnegie Institute Opens Exciting Survey of American Painting." Art Digest 19 (October 15, 1944): 6. p. 6
• University of Kansas Museum of Art. "John Steuart Curry: A Retrospective Exhibition of His Work." Topeka: University of Kansas Museum of Art, 1970. no. 49
• Kroiz, Lauren. "Cultivating Citizens: The Regional Work of Art in the New Deal Era." Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. pp. 195-196, fig. 86
• Kroiz, Lauren. "Making Midwestern Art History: Oskar Hagen and James Watrous." Middle West Review, vol. 7, no. 1 (Fall 2020): 31-39. p. 33, fig. 1

• Painting in the United States, 1944: Carnegie Institute, 10/12/1944–12/10/1944

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