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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2002.90
People
Norman Bluhm, American (Chicago, IL 1921 - 1999 East Wallingford, VT)
Title
Calm
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1956
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/50567

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
160.3 x 96.8 cm (63 1/8 x 38 1/8 in.)
framed: 162.6 x 98.7 cm (64 x 38 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso u.r.: Norman Bluhm/1956, verso u.l. Calm

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, New York]. David K. Anderson, gift; to Anderson Gallery, State University of New York at Buffalo. [Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, New York], sold; to Charles and Miriam Wood, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 2002.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Charles O. Wood, III and Miriam M. Wood Foundation in honor of Carolyn Bluhm
Copyright
© Estate of Norman Bluhm
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
2002.90
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description

Publication History

  • James Harithas and Raphael Rubenstein, Norman Bluhm, Mazzotta (Milan, Italy, 2000), 47
  • Lynn Gumpert and Debra Bricker Balken, ed., Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962, exh. cat., Grey Art Gallery and Hirmer Publishers (New York and Munich, 2022), pp. 61-61, fig. 22, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962, Grey Art Gallery, New York, 03/02/2024 - 07/20/2024; Addison Gallery of American Art, 09/03/2024 - 01/05/2025

Verification Level

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