Silver Moon

Modernism and Twentieth Century

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Silver Moon

Oscar Florianus Bluemner

Silver Moon, 1927

Watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on board

13 5 /16 × 9 15⁄16 inches

Signed lower right with monogram at lower right: OBluemner

Provenance

Estate of the Artist; to
[James Graham & Sons, New York]; to
Meyer P. and Vivian Potamkin Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1966; to
[Sotheby’s, New York, May 21, 2003, lot 1]; to
Private collection, New York, until the present

Exhibited
1928

The Intimate Gallery: Room 303, New York, Oscar Bluemner: New Paintings, A Series of “Water Colors” (Synthetic Medium) and 6 Oils—of Suns, Moons, Etc., Facts and Fancy—Strains or Moods, no. 3

1969–70

The New York Cultural Center, New York, Oscar Bluemner—Paintings, Drawings, no. 87 (as Silver Moonlight)

1972–73

William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, An Alumnus Salutes Dickinson College 200th Anniversary, no. 14

1989

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, American Art from the Collection of Vivian and Meyer P. Potamkin, no. 8

1988–89

The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; and New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, Oscar Bluemner: Landscapes of Sorrow and Joy, no. 73

1997

Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, Oscar Bluemner: American Modernist // Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2006, Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color, no. 86

2007

James Graham & Sons, New York, James Graham & Sons: A Century and a Half in the Art Business, 1857–2007, no. 44

Recorded
  • The Intimate Room, Oscar Bluemner: New Paintings, A Series of “Water Colors” (Synthetic Medium) and 6 Oils- of Suns, Moons, Etc., Facts and Fancy- Strains or Moods (1928), no. 3
  • John Davis Hatch and Alfredo Valente, Oscar Bluemner- Paintings, Drawings (1969), no. 87, as Silver Moonlight
  • William Penn Memorial Museum, An Alumnus Salutes Dickinson College 200th Anniversary (From the Collection of Meyer and Vivian Potamkin), (1973), p. 50, no. 14, illus. in color p. 30
  • Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, American Art from the Collection of Vivian and Meyer P. Potamkin (1989), p. 8
  • Jeffrey R. Hayes, Oscar Bluemner: Landscapes of Sorrow and Joy (1988), no. 73, illus. p. 54
  • Jeffrey R. Hayes, Oscar Bluemner (1991), p. 129, no. 86, illus. p. 131
  • Sotheby’s, New York, sale 7904, American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture from the Collection of Meyer & Vivian Potamkin, May 21, 2003, lot 1, p. 12, illus. in color p. 13
  • Jeffrey R. Hayes, “Silver Moon,” Unpublished essay. Karen A. and Kevin W. Kennedy Collection Archives, 2003
  • Barbara Haskell, Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color (2005), pp. 97, 102, no. 86, illus. in color p. 103
  • Marcelle Polednik, “Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color,” in American Art Review, October 2005, illustrated p. 133
  • Barbara Haskell and Stephanie Lynn Schumann, “Suns and Moon,” in Antiques, November 2005, p. 126, illus. in color, pl. II, p. 123
  • Stephen May, “Oscar Bluemner: A Passion For Color,” in Antiques and the Arts Weekly, December 9, 2005, p. 70
  • Betsy Fahlman, James Graham & Sons: A Century and a Half in the Art Business, 1857-2007 (2007) p. 46, no. 44, illus. in color p. 44
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