Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938 Search this
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)
Type:
Painting
Date:
1927
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).
Credit Line:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
