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Abstractied view of the Brooklyn Bridge featuring intersecting lines in grey and blue.
Abstractied view of the Brooklyn Bridge featuring intersecting lines in grey and blue.

The Artist;
[Rabin and Kruger, New Jersey];
Ellenberger Family Collection, Florida;
By descent in the family, New York;
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM];

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).

Corpus Christi. The Art Museum of South Texas. Masterpieces of American Modernism from the Vilcek Collection of American Art. September 13, 2018-January 6, 2019.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 78-79, 222, 235, 268, ill. p. 79.

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. 103, fig. 13.

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