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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1955.170
People
Max Beckmann, German (Leipzig, Germany 1884 - 1950 New York, N.Y., USA)
Title
Souvenir of Chicago
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Souvenir de Chikago
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1948
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Germany
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227641

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
108.6 x 78.1 cm (42 3/4 x 30 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: Beckmann St. L., Signed Date: 48

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., From the artist?, 1948, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1955.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Accession Year
1955
Object Number
1955.170
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Benno Reifenberg and Wilhelm Hausenstein, Max Beckmann, R. Piper (Munich, Germany, 1949), no. 639
  • Max Beckmann, Recent Work, exh. cat., Buchholz Gallery (New York, NY, 1949), no. 11
  • Max Beckmann, Tagebücher 1940-1950, A. Langen-G. Müller (Munich, Germany, 1955)
  • Charles Scott Chetham, Modern Painting, Drawing & Sculpture: Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1957), pp. 13-15, fig. 37, ill. (b/w) plate section
  • Art to Hear: Beckmann and America, Hatje Cantz Verlag (Ostfildern, Germany, 2011), p. 26, fig. 13, ill. (color)
  • Jutta Schutt, ed., Beckmann and America, exh. cat., Städel Museum and Hatje Cantz (Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2011), pp. 23, 63-64, 176-179, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Max Beckmann, Recent Work, Buchholz Gallery, New York, 10/18/1949 - 11/05/1949
  • A Tribute to Curt Valentin, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 01/14/1955 - 02/14/1955
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Washington University Gallery of Art, 1961, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, 01/01/1961 - 12/31/1961
  • Works from the 20th Century Collection of the Busch-Reisinger, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 06/15/1980 - 09/01/1980; Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 09/23/1980 - 10/24/1980
  • 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
  • Hinter der Buhne (Backstage): Max Beckmann 1950, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, 07/20/1990 - 09/19/1990; Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, 10/10/1990 - 01/13/1991
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000
  • Max Beckmann - Fernand Leger: Surprising Confrontations, Museum Ludwig, Köln, 05/20/2005 - 08/28/2005
  • Max Beckmann and America, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 10/07/2011 - 01/08/2012

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