Bucolic Landscape
- Date
- 1913
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- made in
- Sindelsdrof, Bavaria state, Germany, Europe
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 215
- Dimensions
- 39 5/8 × 33 3/4 in. (100.6 × 85.7 cm)
framed: 50 in. × 44 1/4 in. (127 × 112.4 cm) - Credit Line
- Bequest of Morton D. May
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 875:1983
NOTES
Like a fairy tale, a menagerie of animals joins a man and woman in a mountainous landscape. The setting evokes the idyllic artist colony of Sindelsdorf in southern Germany, Heinrich Campendonk’s home. The bold colors and geometric shapes reflect the ideas he encountered there. Campendonk and his fellow contributors to the Blauer Reiter (Blue Rider) almanac organized exhibitions of European modern art, including French Cubism and Italian Futurism. Campendonk’s faceted abstraction, seen in this painting, synthesizes these influences and German Expressionist color theory.
(M. Venator/Storm of Progress/Oct 2020)
Provenance
- 1952
Curt Valentin Gallery, Inc., New York, NY, USA
1952 - 1983
Morton D. May (1914-1983), St. Louis, MO, purchased from Curt Valentin Gallery, Inc. [1]
1983 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, bequest of Morton D. May [2]
Notes:
[1] Statement from Curt Valentin Gallery to Morton D. May dated May 14, 1952 [May Archives, Saint Louis Art Museum]. Curt Valentin (1902-1954) was the owner of Buchholz Gallery, which was renamed Curt Valentin Gallery in 1951.
[2] Last Will and Testament of M. D. May dated June 11, 1982 [copy, May Archives, Saint Louis Art Museum]. Minutes of the Acquisitions and Loans Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, September 20, 1983.
Curt Valentin Gallery, Inc., New York, NY, USA
1952 - 1983
Morton D. May (1914-1983), St. Louis, MO, purchased from Curt Valentin Gallery, Inc. [1]
1983 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, bequest of Morton D. May [2]
Notes:
[1] Statement from Curt Valentin Gallery to Morton D. May dated May 14, 1952 [May Archives, Saint Louis Art Museum]. Curt Valentin (1902-1954) was the owner of Buchholz Gallery, which was renamed Curt Valentin Gallery in 1951.
[2] Last Will and Testament of M. D. May dated June 11, 1982 [copy, May Archives, Saint Louis Art Museum]. Minutes of the Acquisitions and Loans Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, September 20, 1983.
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