Justin McCarthy (American, 1892–1977)NosesMixed media on paper laid down to card.Executed mid-1950s.14 x 22 in. (35.6 x 55.9cm)together with:OccupationsSigned bottom right, mixed media on paper laid down to paper.Executed mid-1950s.14 x 22 in. (35.6 x 55.9cm)together with:Baseball PanelsSigned bottom center, mixed media on paper laid down to paperboard.Executed in 1956.sight: 19 x 27 in. (48.3 x 68.6cm)together with:Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1953 World SeriesSigned bottom center right, pen and watercolor on two paper panels mounted on Masonite.Executed in 1953.38 1/2 x 12 5/8 in. (97.8 x 32.1cm)Unframed(4)PROVENANCE:The Artist.The Collection of Sterling and Dorothy Strauser.Private Collection, Princeton, New Jersey (by descent in family).note:"I try hard now to get McCarthys back from the local collectors who, I think, are not appreciating them, who haven't framed them and haven't hung them, and just stuff them away in the attic. Once in awhile I succeed. When I do, I feel it's a real triumph." - Sterling Strauser in an interview with Lynda Hartigan of the National Museum of American Art, August 10, 1989.