Patrick Henry Bruce, American, b. Campbell County, Virginia, 1881–1936 Search this
Medium:
Oil and pencil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 3/8 X 31 3/4 IN. (64.4 X 80.7 CM.)
Type:
Painting
Date:
(c. 1922-1923)
Provenance:
The Artist
Henri-Pierre Roche, 1933
Mme. Henri-Pierre Roche, 1959
M. Knoedler, New York (on consignment), 1965-1967
Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, 1967
Jon Streep, New York, 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), no. 9. Tour to nine U.S. cities.
BOARD OF GOVENORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, Washington, DC. "Patrick Henry Bruce: 1910-1912," 1 July-31 August 1981, no. 28, ill. in exhibition brochure.
TERRA MUSEUM OF ART, Chicago. "A Proud Heritage: Two Centuries of American Art with Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden," 26 June-1 September 1987.
HOLLIS TAGGERT GALLERIES, New York. "Inheriting Cubism: The Impact of Cubism on American Art, 1909-1936" 28 November 2001 - 12 January 2002.
TERRA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Chicago, IL. "A Transatlantic Avant-Garde: American Artists in Paris, 1918-1939," 17 April - 27 June 2004. TOUR: MUSEE D'ART AMERICAIN, GIVERNY, 31 August - 30 November 2003; TACOMA ART MUSEUM, Tacoma, WA, 18 December 2003 - 28 March 2004.
Published References:
AGEE, WILLIAM C. and BARBARA ROSE. Patrick Henry Bruce: American Modernist, catalogue raisonne (New York: Museum of Modern Art; Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1979), no. D10, pp. 199-200.
RICHARD, PAUL. "Muddled Modernist," Washington Post (15 August 1981), ill. (detail).
TURNER, ELIZABETH HUTTON. American Artists in Paris, 1919-1929 (Ann Arbor / London: UMI Research Press, 1988), fig. 35.
Credit Line:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
