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Home > Art > Women and Trees

Women and Trees

Artist

Max Weber

Date

1911

Medium

Oil on burlap

Object Type

Painting

Dimensions

H- 31 1/2 x W- 25 1/2 in. (80 x 64.8 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

Russia

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2006.01.01

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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The Artist;
Linda R. Miller;
By descent to her daughter, Helen Miller Obstler, New York;
By descent to her daughter and son-in-law, Natalie and Jerome Spingarn, Washington D.C.;
By descent through the family;
[Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY];

New York, NY. Murray Hill Galleries. Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Max Weber. February 12-24, 1912, cat. no. 5.

Possibly: New York, NY. The Print Gallery (under the direction of The Ehrich Galleries). Paintings and Drawings by Max Weber. February 1-13, 1915, cat. no. 12.

Paris, France. Bernheim-Jeune. Exposition Max Weber. January 26-February 13, 1924, cat. no. 5.

New York, NY. Whitney Museum of American Art. Max Weber Retrospective (February 5-March 27, 1949); Minneapolis. Walker Art Center (April 17-May 29, 1949); p. 60, cat. no. 8.

New York, NY. Jewish Museum. Max Weber: An American Modern. October 5, 1982-January 16, 1983, pp. 70, 72, ill. p. 72, cat. no. 22. (New York only).

Tulsa, OK. Philbrook Museum of Art. Model and Muses: Max Weber and the Figure. November 4, 2012-February 3, 2013, pp. 16, 27, 60-61, ill. detail on cover, p. 61, pl. 15.

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).

Weber, Max. Max Weber: The Years 1906-1916. New York: Bernard Danenberg Galleries, 1970, ill. frontispiece, installation photo of 1912 show.

Weber, Max. Max Weber: The Years 1906-1916. Elmira, NY: Arnot Art Gallery, 1972, ill. frontispiece, installation photo of 1912 show.

Werner, Alfred. Max Weber. New York: Harry Abrams, 1975, ill. p. 195, fig. 159, installation photo of 1912 show.

North, Percy. Max Weber: The Cubist Decade 1910-1920. Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1991. ill. p. 88, fig. 28, installation photo of 1912 show.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 104, 106-107, 234, 240, 269, ill. p. 107.

O’Hern, John. “Modern Manor,” American Fine Art Magazine, September/October 2013, ill. p. 58.

 

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