(American, 1895-1981) OLYMPIA signed Philipp, l.r.; also titled OLYMPIA, signed Robert Philipp, inscribed Dedicated to Ross Peacock, my dealer, a true connoisseur like the former owner of my 'Olympia,' J. Paul Getty and signed on the reverse; oil on canvas; 37 1/4 x 50 1/4 inches Note: This painting was awarded first Logan Prize and Gold Medal at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1936. page 2057 Category: ARTFACT REL. 1.5F - (c)1994,1995 ARTFACT, INC./FINE ART AUCTION LISTINGS / Provenance: Kleeman Galleries, New York H. Leonard Simmons (Sale: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, April 4/5, 1940, #61) J. Paul Getty Gift to the Getty Museum, Malibu, 1970 (Sale: Sotheby Parke Bernet, Los Angeles, November 6, 1978, #176) Exhibited: New York, National Academy of Design, n.d. Minneapolis, Minneapolis Art Inst., n.d. New London, Lyman Allyn Museum, n.d. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, American Paintings & Sculpture, Forty seventh Annual Exhibition, Invited Works, 1936, no. 154, illus. as frontispiece Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, long term loan (1942-1954) Literature: "A Portfolio of Prize Paintings," Fortune, December, 1937, vol. 16, p. 140, illus. in color W.S. Hall, Eyes on America, n.d., p. 133 F. Watson, American Painting Today, 1939, p. 156 F.A. Whiting, "Two Versions of American Art," American Magazine of Art, December, 1936, vol. 29, p. 812.