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Red Night, Thoughts Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938)
- DATE
- 1929
- MEDIUM
- Oil on board mounted on panel
- DIMENSIONS
- H- 8 x W- 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
- COUNTRY OF BIRTH
- Germany
- CREDIT LINE
- The Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, Promised gift to The Vilcek Foundation
- ACCESSION NUMBER
- 2008.04.01
- COPYRIGHT INFO
- © The Vilcek Foundation
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PROVENANCE
- The Artist;
[Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY];
Collection of Miss Eleanor B. Kohlmeyer, 1978;
[Sotheby's New York, May 22, 2008, lot 122];
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM];
- The Artist;
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REFERENCES
Oscar Bluemner Papers, Writings & Notes: “Framing, Crating, Shipping,” 1913-1936. Box 2, Folder 26, Frame 9. Archives of American Art.
Hayes, Jeffery R. Oscar Bluemner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 137, ill. p. 139, fig. 93.
Haskell, Barbara. Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2005, ill. p. 123, fig. 104.
Kalina, Richard. “Oscar Bluemner: In Living Color,” Art in America, January 1, 2006, p.102.
Eleanor B. Kohlmeyer Collection. Sotheby's, New York. American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture. May 22, 2008, lot 122, ill.
Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 42-43, 238, 262, ill. p. 43.
Pochoda, Elizabeth. “Freedom and the abstract truth: Jan and Marica Vilcek’s collection of American modernist art,” The Magazine Antiques (May/June 2013), ill. p. 98, fig. 6.
Watts Jr., James D. "Modern masterworks: Philbrook exhibit brings American masters to Tulsa," Tulsa World, February 12, 2015.
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EXHIBITIONS
- New York. Whitney Studio Galleries. 20 New Oils on Panel by Oscar Bluemner. November 4-23, 1929, np., cat. no. 3.
Washington D.C. The Corcoran Gallery of Art. Oscar Bluemner: Landscapes of Sorrow and Joy. December 10, 1988-February 19, 1989, ill. p. 62, fig. 87.
Tulsa. Philbrook Museum of Art. From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection (February 8-May 3, 2015); Phoenix. Phoenix Art Museum (June 5-September 6, 2015); Santa Fe. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (September 25, 2015-January 10, 2016).
- New York. Whitney Studio Galleries. 20 New Oils on Panel by Oscar Bluemner. November 4-23, 1929, np., cat. no. 3.
