Arising
Date
1927
Artist
Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938
Provenance
Bluemner Estate
James Graham and Sons, New York, 21 APril 1959
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York
Exhibition History
THE INTIMATE GALLERY, New York. "Oscar Bluemner New Paintings," 28 February-27 March 1928, cat. no. 13.
JAMES GRAHAM AND SONS, New York. "Oscar Bluemner, 1867-1938 Retrospective Exhibition," 15 November-10 December 1956, cat. no. 28.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Oscar Bluemner," 14 November-2 March 1980, cat. no. 50, ill. p. 46.
COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART, Columbus, OH. "Oscar Bluemner," 8 December 1984-27 January 1985.
CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Washington, DC. "Oscar Bluemner: Landscapes of Sorrow and Joy," 10 December 1988-19 February 1989, cat. no. 75, ill. p. 55. TOUR: AMON CARTER MUSEUM, Fort Worth, Texas, 18 March-14 May 1989; NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM, Trenton, NJ, 17 June-27 August 1989.
BARBARA MATHES GALLERY, New York. "Oscar Bluemner," 15 April-5 June 1997,
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NY. "Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color," 10 October 2005-12 February 2006.
Published References
OSCAR BLUEMNER PAPERS, EXHIBITION CATALOGUES. (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC): microfilm no. 338, frame 93.
OXORN, PEARL. "Bluemner: a freshened perspective," The Washington Star (16 December 1979): ill.
UNSIGNED. "Vorreiter des abstrakten Expresionismus in den USA," Handelsblatt (19 August 1980).
HAYES, JEFFREY RUSSELL. Oscar Bluemner: Life, Art, and Theory, Vol 1 (Dissertation: University of Maryland, 1982): fig. 84 p. 514.
HAYES, JEFFREY R. Oscar Bluemner (Cambridge University Press, 1991): fig. 87 p. 132.
ZILCZER, JUDITH. "Light coming on the Plains: Georgia O'Keeffe's Sunrise Series," Artibus et Historiae: An Art Anthology 40 (Viena-Cracow, 1999): ill. p. 201.
FAVIS, ROBERTA SMITH. Bluemner and the Critics (New York: Menconi + Schoelkopf, 2021), fig. 3 (color).
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Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
66.558
Type
Painting
Medium
Watercolor and pencil on paper mounted on fiberboard
Dimensions
sight: 9 7/16 x 12 9/16 in. (24 x 31.9 cm) in artists's mat: 15 3/16 x 18 1/4 in. (38.5 x 46 cm)
