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Home > Art > Red Night, Thoughts

Red Night, Thoughts

Artist

Oscar Bluemner

Date

1929

Medium

Oil on board mounted on panel

Object Type

Painting

Dimensions

H- 8 x W- 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

Germany

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, Promised gift to The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

2008.04.01

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

Tags
architecture New York oil painting
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About the Object

Set in the Bronx, New York, this painting of a nocturnal scene features a bright red house set in a rocky landscape. From the bottom left corner a tan path seems to emerge, running past the house and curving behind the rocks. Leafy trees seem to reach across the canvas toward the roof of the house, while smaller patches of green suggest bushes or shrubs.

 

Additional Information

This painting was included in the exhibition 20 New Oils on Panel by Oscar Bluemner at the Whitney Studio Galleries in November 1929. Following the death of his wife in 1926, Bluemner moved to Braintree, Massachusetts, where he lived for the rest of his life.

The Artist;
[Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY];
Collection of Miss Eleanor B. Kohlmeyer, 1978;
[Sotheby’s New York, NY, May 22, 2008, lot 122];
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM];

New York, NY. 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, OK. 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, AZ. Phoenix Art Museum (June 5-September 6, 2015); Santa Fe, NM. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (September 25, 2015-January 10, 2016).

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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