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Evening Tones
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Object Details
- Artist
- Oscar Bluemner, born Prenzlau, Germany 1867-died South Braintree, MA 1938
- Gallery Label
- Evening Tones abstracts a landscape along the Hudson River into a vibrant range of colors. Bluemner came to the United States to escape Germany's conservatism, hoping to find the freedom to try new ideas. After years of struggling in his architectural practice, he turned to painting, throwing himself into the exciting theories of modern art that were making their way across the Atlantic from Europe. But in the climate of World War I, foreign painters and foreign ideas were suspect. A critic reviewing Bluemner's work in 1915 avowed that his art was "utterly alien to the American idea of democracy."
- Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006
- Publication Label
- Evening Tones abstracts a landscape along the Hudson River into a vibrant range of colors. Oscar Bluemner came to the United States to escape Germany's conservatism, hoping to find the freedom to try new ideas. After years of struggling in his architectural practice, he turned to painting, throwing himself into the exciting theories of modern art that were making their way across the Atlantic from Europe.
- Smithsonian American Art Museum: Commemorative Guide. Nashville, TN: Beckon Books, 2015.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of James F. Dicke II and museum purchase made possible by the American Art Forum, the Julia D. Strong Endowment and the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- 1911-1917
- Object number
- 2002.24
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 15 1/4 x 20 in. (38.7 x 50.8 cm)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2nd Floor, North Wing
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Abstract
- Landscape\time\evening
- Cityscape\river\Bronx River
- Architecture Exterior\domestic\house
- Cityscape\New York\Mount Vernon
- Record ID
- saam_2002.24
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk79df948dd-7e89-4187-b561-6ada928a6718
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