Strife
Date
(c. 1912)
Artist
Konrad Cramer, American, b. Würtzburg, Germany, 1888–1963
Provenance
[Estate of the Artist]
Castellane Gallery, New York, to 20 November 1967
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York and Washington, DC, 20 November 1967-31 August 1981
Estate of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1981-1986
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981
Exhibition History
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York. "Pioneers of Modern Art in America," 9 April-19 May 1946, no. 19.
DELAWARE ART MUSEUM, Wilmington. "Avant-Garde Painting and Sculpture in America, 1910-1925," 4 April-18 May 1975, ill.
EDITH C. BLUM ART INSTITUTE/MILTON AND SALLY AVERY CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Bard College Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. "Konrad Cramer: A Retrospective," 21 November 1981-24 January 1982, no. 10, ill.
JOSEPH AND MARGARET MUSCARELLE MUSEUM OF ART, Williamsburg, Virginia. "Into the Melting Pot: The Immigration of American Modernism (1909-1929)," 8 October 1984-10 January 1985, pl. 3, pp. 16, 35.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. "Selections from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest," 7 August-16 November 1986, unpublished checklist, no. 25.
DAYTON ART INSTITUTE, Dayton, Ohio (organizer). "Kandinsky and the American Avant-Garde," pl. 20, p. 68, checklist no. 11, p. 224. TOUR: PHILLIPS COLLECTION, Washington, DC, 19 September-22 November 1992; DAYTON ART INSTITUTE, Dayton, Ohio, 15 December-2 February 1993; TERRA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Chicago, Illinois, 13 February-25 April, AMON CARTER MUSEUM, Fort Worth, Texas, 14 May-1 August.
HOLLIS TAGGART GALLERIES, New York. "Concerning Expressionism: American Modernism and the German Avant-Garde," 19 May-31 July 1998, unnumbered checklist.
Published References
DAVIDSON, ABRAHAM A. Early American Modernist Painting 1910-1935, Icon Editions (New York: Harper & Row, 1981), p. 259.
LEVIN, GAIL. "Konrad Cramer: Link from the German to the American Avant-Garde," Arts Magazine 56 (February 1982), pp. 146-47, fig. 9.
ALLEN, JANE ADDAMS. "Hirshhorn's best unveiled," Washington Times (8 August 1986), ill. sec. C, p. 1.
RICHARD, PAUL. "Hirshhorn: A Collector's Touch," Washington Post (9 August 1986), p. D8.
KRAMER, HILTON. "Art Outsmarts Theories in Expressionist Exhibit," New York Observer (22 June 1998), p. 29.
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Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
86.958
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
28 X 24 IN. (71.1 X 61.0 CM.)
