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Artist Loren MacIver (American 1909–1998)

Date1936

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 24 15/16 x 34 1/16 in. (63.3 x 86.5 cm), frame: 27 1/4 x 36 3/8 x 1 1/4 in. (69.2 x 92.4 x 3.2 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.82

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Twentieth

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Signedbottom right: MacIver

Exhibition HistoryInaugural Installation: 20th Century American Galleries (113), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024–present An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022 An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005 Loren MacIver: Paintings and Collages, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, October 7–November 6, 1993 Loren MacIver, Museum of Modern Art (New York) circulating exhibition; Arts Club of Chicago, January 31–February 28, 1941; Duke University, Durham, NC, March 7–22, 1941; San Francisco Museum of Art, October 5–26, 1941 Exhibition of American Art, 1609–1938, organized by the Museum of Modern Art (New York) for the Jeu de Paume, Paris, May 24–July 13, 1938 MacIver, East River Gallery, New York, NY, March 29–April 16, 1938 Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, December 9, 1936–January 17, 1937ProvenanceThe artist Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1993 from Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift from the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2013), 168 (ill., color), 194 (ill, color). An Intimate Eye (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 14 (no. 49). Robert G. Edelman, “MacIver’s Luminous Visions,” Art in America 82 (February 1994): 80 (ill., color), 82. Richard D. Marshall, “Loren MacIver’s Moments,” in Loren MacIver, exh. cat. (New York: Terry Dintenfass, Inc., 1993), n.p. (ill., color). Holland Cotter, “Loren MacIver,” The New York Times, October 29, 1993. Loren MacIver: Exhibition (Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 1941) (brochure), n.p. (no. 4). MacIver, exh. cat. (New York: East River Art Gallery, 1938), 204 (no. 1). Alfred H. Barr Jr., ed., Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1936), 234 (no. 563).