LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

30.00 in. (76.20 cm.) (height) by 40.00 in. (101.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Bluemner' (lower right)

Exhibited:

New York, Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, Paintings, Drawings: Oscar Bluemner, November 10-December 7, 1915. New York, James Graham & Sons, Retrospective Exhibition: Oscar F. Bluemner, 1867-1938, November 15-December 10, 1956, no. 16 (as Red Farm at Pochuck). New York, James Graham & Sons, Oscar Bluemner 1867-1938, December 7-31, 1960, no. 5 (as Red Farm at Pochuck). Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Roots of Abstract Art in America 1910-1930, December 2, 1965-January 6, 1966 (as Red Farm at Pochuck). New York, James Graham & Sons, Oscar Bluemner, December 1-30, 1967, no. 12 (as Red Farm at Pochuck). New York, New York Cultural Center, Oscar Bluemner--Paintings, Drawings, December 16, 1969-March 8, 1970, no. 10 (as Red Farm at Pochuck). New York, Bernard Danenberg Galleries, Inc., Oscar Bluemner: Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, February 8-26, 1972, no. 42 (as Red Farm at Pochuck). Newark, Delaware, University of Delaware, and elsewhere, Avant-Garde Painting and Sculpture in America, 1910-1925, April 4-May 18, 1975 (as Red Farm at Pochuck). New York, Barbara Mathes Gallery, Oscar Bluemner: A Retrospective Exhibition, March 16-May 4, 1985, no. 7. Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, and elsewhere, Oscar Bluemner: Landscapes of Sorrow and Joy, December 10, 1988-February 19, 1989, no. 53 (as Illusion of a Prairie, New Jersey (Sparkhill)). Newport Beach, California, Orange County Museum of Art, Villa America: American Moderns, 1900-1950, June 4, 2005-December 31, 2006, no. 4.

Literature:

James Graham & Sons, Retrospective Exhibition: Oscar F. Bluemner, 1867-1938, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1956, n.p., no. 16 (as Red Farm at Pochuck). James Graham & Sons, Oscar Bluemner, 1867-1938, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1960, n.p., no. 5 (as Red Farm at Pochuck). M. Breuning, "Bluemner's Countryside..," Arts, vol. XXXV, December 1960, p. 48, illustrated (as Red Farm at Pochuck). National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Roots of Abstract Art in America 1910-1930, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1965, n.p., illustrated (as Red Farm at Pochuck). James Graham & Sons, Oscar Bluemner, 1867-1939, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1967, n.p., no. 12 (as Red Farm at Pochuck). Fogg Art Museum, Oscar Bluemner: American Colorist, exhibition catalogue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967, pp. 47-48. New York Cultural Center, Oscar Bluemner--Paintings, Drawings, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1969, n.p., no. 10, illustrated (as Red Farm at Pochuck). Bernard Danenberg Galleries, Inc., Oscar Bluemner: Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1972, pp. 16-17, no. 42, illustrated (as Red Farm at Pochuck). C. Ratcliff, "New York Letter," Art International, vol. XVI, no. 4, April 20, 1972, p. 30, illustrated. University of Delaware, Delaware Art Museum, Avant-Garde Painting and Sculpture in America, 1910-1925, exhibition catalogue, Wilmington, Delaware, 1975, pp. 35, 172, illustrated (as Red Farm at Pochuck). J. Brodsky, "Oscar Bluemner in Black and White," William Benton Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. I, no. 5, 1977, p. 9 (as Red Farm at Pochuck). J.R. Hayes, Oscar Bluemner: Life, Art, and Theory, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, 1982, p. 274. J.R. Hayes, Oscar Bluemner: A Retrospective Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1985, n.p., fig. 7, no. 7, illustrated. R.S. Appelhof, et al., The Expressionist Landscape: North American Modernist Painting, 1920-1947, exhibition catalogue, Birmingham, Alabama, 1988, pp. 92-93 (as Illusion of a Prairie, New Jersey). J.R. Hayes, Landscapes of Sorrow and Joy, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1988, p. 43, no. 53, illustrated (as Illusion of a Prairie, New Jersey (Sparkhill)). E. Armstrong, Villa America: American Moderns, 1900-1950, exhibition catalogue, Newport Beach, California, 2005, p. 119, no. 4.

Provenance:

Private collection, New York. James Graham & Sons, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Plotch, New York. [With]ACA Galleries and Barbara Mathes Gallery, Inc., New York. Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1984.