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Artist Alfred Henry Maurer (American, 1868 - 1932)

Datec. 1919

MediumGouache on composition board

DimensionsOverall: 21 5/8 x 18 in. (54.9 x 45.7 cm), frame: 28 1/8 x 24 3/8 x 5/8 in. (71.4 x 61.9 x 1.6 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.89

Collections

American

ClassificationsPainting

Object NameGouache

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

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Signedtop left: a. H. Maurer

Inscribedverso bottom left backing board: 4349; verso bottom right backing board: Baker # 3305-B / Box 8 / #14a

Exhibition HistoryAn American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022 “Varied and Untried”: Early Twentieth-Century American Paintings from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 13–May 5, 2013 An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005 From Nature to the City: American Modern Works on Paper, Palmer Museum of Art, September 26, 2000–February 18, 2001 Alfred H. Maurer (1868–1932): The Cubist Works, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, January 2–February 27, 1989 Alfred H. Maurer, 1868–1932, Babcock Galleries, New York, January 6–31, 1968ProvenanceThe artist Estate of the artist [Mrs. Eugenia Maurer Fuerstenberg (sister) and Alfred H. Maurer (nephew)], 1932–41 Ione and Hudson D. Walker and estates, 1941–89 [on extended loan to University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1953–67] Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, 1989 Tommy and Gill LiPuma, New York, 1989–95 (with Hirschl & Adler, New York, May 1993–December 1994) Joseph P. Carroll, New York, 1995–99 Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1999 from Babcock Galleries, 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: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 66 (fig. 7), 196 (ill., color). An Intimate Eye (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 14 (no. 54). Alfred H. Maurer (1868–1932): The Cubist Works (New York: Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, 1988), n.p. (ill., color, no. 2). Alfred H. Maurer, 1868–1932 (New York: Babcock Galleries, 1968), 12 (ill., no. 15).