Abstraction–Machine Form

Artist Morton Livingston Schamberg (American, 1881 - 1918)

Datec. 1916

MediumPastel and pencil on paper

DimensionsOverall: 9 5/8 x 6 1/4 in. (24.4 x 15.9 cm), frame: 20 3/4 x 16 7/8 x 7/8 in. (52.7 x 42.9 x 2.2 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.105

Collections

ClassificationsWork on Paper

Object NamePastel

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

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Signedtop right: Schamberg

Exhibition HistoryMADE IN PA on Paper, Palmer Museum of Art, June 1–September 8, 2024 An 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, 2001ProvenanceAmerican Paintings and Sculpture, Christie’s East, New York, May 5, 1999, sale 8247, lot 149 Babcock Galleries, New York Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1999 from Babcock Galleries 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), 69 (fig. 11), 70, 202 (ill., color). An Intimate Eye (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 14 (no. 61). American Paintings and Sculpture, May 5, 1999 (New York: Christie’s East, 1999), 51 (ill., no. 149).