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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.72.A-C
People
Karl Zerbe, American (Berlin, Germany 1903 - 1972 Tallahassee, FL)
Title
Melancholia (triptych)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1946
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/314677

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Encaustic on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 182.9 x 254 cm (72 x 100 in.)
first panel: 182.9 x 76.2 cm (72 x 30 in.)
second panel: 182.9 x 101.6 cm (72 x 40 in.)
third panel: 182.9 x 76.2 cm (72 x 30 in.)
overall framed: 185.4 x 261.6 cm (73 x 103 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Estate of Herbert D. Schutz, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Estate of Herbert D. Schutz in memory of Herbert D. Schutz, Harvard College, Class of 1944 and Betty Prescott Schutz, Radcliffe College, Class of 1946
Accession Year
2006
Object Number
2006.72.A-C
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Frederick A. Sweet and Katharine Kuh, Abstract and Surrealist American Art, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicgo, IL, 1947), fig. 256, ill.
  • Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston Expressionism: Hyman Bloom, Jack Levine, Karl Zerbe, exh. cat. (Boston, Massachusetts, 1979), p. 9 (ill.), 24
  • Lemoyne Art Foundation, Expressions of life: the life & work of Karl Zerbe (Tellehassee, Fl., 1989), color ill. frontispiece.

Exhibition History

  • Abstract and Surrealist American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, 11/06/1947 - 01/11/1948
  • Boston Expressionism, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 01/09/1979 - 02/25/1979
  • The Expressionist Vision, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island, 12/16/1983 - 02/05/1984
  • Expressionism in Boston 1945-1985, De Cordova Museum
  • The Visionary Decade: New Voices in Art in 1940s Boston, Boston University Art Galleries, 09/01/2002 - 11/01/2002; Thorne Sagendorph Art Gallery, 02/01/2003 - 03/01/2003
  • 32Q: 1330 Mid-Century Figurative, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/11/2017 - 07/26/2018

Verification Level

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