BR49.711: Uprooted (The Painter of the Hole)
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BR49.711
- People
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George Grosz, American (Berlin, Germany 1893 - 1959 Berlin, Germany)
- Title
- Uprooted (The Painter of the Hole)
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1948
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/225061
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor and selectively applied glaze on off-white modern laid paper
- Dimensions
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65.1 x 48.2 cm (25 5/8 x 19 in.)
image: 63 x 46.5 cm (24 13/16 x 18 5/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: in graphite at l.r.: GROSZ
- inscription: l.l., graphite, English, in artist's hand: 4 Uprooted
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Association Fund
- Copyright
- © Estate of George Grosz / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 1949
- Object Number
- BR49.711
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Charles L. Kuhn, German Expressionism and Abstract Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1957), cat. no. 80, b/w ill.
- Peter-Klaus Schuster, George Grosz, Berlin-New York, exh. cat., Ars Nicolai (Berlin, Germany, 1994), p. 208, col. ill., p. 443, no. X. 137, col. ill.
- Brigit Möckel, George Grosz in Amerika 1932-1959, Peter Lang (Frankfurt am Main, Germany and New York, NY, 1997), p. 320, fig. 150
- Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 79-83, fig. 1, ill. (color)
- Timothy Standring, [Review] "American Watercolors, 1880-1990: Into the Light", The Burlington Magazine (August 2023), 165, pp. 908-911, p. 910
- Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 32, 34, 117, repr. as figs. 2-3 [details] on p. 34, pl. 48 on p. 117
- George Grosz: The Stick Men, exh. cat., Buchhandlung Walther König (Cologne, 2023), p. 110, fig. 9, ill. (color)
Exhibition History
- George Grosz 1893-1959, Akademie Der Künste, Berlin, 10/07/1962 - 12/30/1962
- Deutsche Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus dem Busch-Reisinger Museum, Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, 10/23/1982 - 01/16/1983; Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin 30, 02/10/1983 - 04/17/1983; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 05/08/1983 - 06/26/1983
- 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 04/29/2015
- American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023
- The Grey Man Dances: Grosz and the Stick Men, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, 05/11/2024 - 09/01/2024
Verification Level
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