Still Life #12
Date
(1925-1928)
Artist
Patrick Henry Bruce, American, b. Campbell County, Virginia, 1881–1936
Provenance
The Artist
Henri-Pierre Roche, Paris, 1933
Mme. Henri-Pierre Roche, Paris, 1959 (by bequest)
M. Knoedler, New York, 1965-1967
Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, 1967
Jon N. Streep, Paris, to 6 February 1968
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 6 February 1968-6 March 1972
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Exhibition History
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, COLLEGE AT OSWEGO. "Synchromism and Related American Color Painting 1910-1930," 4-26 February 1967 (Museum of Modern Art, New York, circulating exhibition), cat. Tour to nine U.S. cities.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Houston. "Patrick Henry Bruce: American Modernist," 31 May-29 July 1979, no. 30. TOUR: MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York, 22 August-21 October, VIRGINIA MUSEUM, Richmond, 26 November 1979-6 January 1980.
MUSEE D'ART MODERNE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS. "Leger et l'esprit moderne: une alternative d'avant-garde a l'art non-objectif (1918-1931) (Leger and the Modern Spirit: An Avant-Garde Alternative to Non Objective Art)," 17 March-6 June 1982, no. 200. TOUR: MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Houston, 9 July-5 September; MUSEE RATH, Geneva, 4 November 1982-16 January 1983.
IVAM CENTRE JULIO GONZALEZ, Valencia, Spain. "Paris 1930," 20 September-2 December 1990, no. 242, ill. p. 297.
Published References
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), p. 715.
AGEE, WILLIAM C. and BARBARA ROSE. Patrick Henry Bruce: American Modernist, a catalogue raisonne (New York; Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1979), no. 30, ill. cat. D24, p. 207.
SELZ, PETER. Art in Our Times: A Pictorial History, 1890-1980 (New York: Harry N. Abrams and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981), no. 699, ill.
ZELLMAN, MICHAEL DAVID, comp. American Art Analog, 1874-1930, vol. 3 (New York: Chelsea House Pub. in association with American Art Analog, 1986), ill. p. 816.
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School
Early American Modernism
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
72.45
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil and pencil on canvas
Dimensions
35 1/8 X 45 3/4 IN. (89.2 X 116.1 CM.)
