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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Bluemner, Oscar Florianus Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: 1867-1938 Gender: M Creator Name-CRT: Oscar Bluemner Title: A Situation in Yellow Title Type: Title View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1933 Creation End Date: 1933 Creation Date: 1933 Object Type: Paintings Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas Dimensions: 36 x 50 1/2 in. (91.44 x 128.27 cm.) AMICA Contributor: Whitney Museum of American Art Owner Location: New York, New York, USA ID Number: 67.66 Credit Line: Gift of Nancy and Harry L. Koenigsberg Rights: http://www.whitney.org/information/rights.shtml Provenance: Estate of the artist Graham Gallery, New York, New York, - 1967 Collection of Nancy and Harry L. Koenigsberg, 1967 - 1967 Context - Person: Bluemner Oscar Context - Person: Koenigsberg Harry L. Context - Person: Koenigsberg Nancy Context - Date: 1933 - 1933 Context: Oscar Bluemner's emergence after 1912 as a painter and brilliant colorist occurred simultaneously with the introduction of modernism in America. Modernism's new, non-naturalistic approach to color could be incorporated in painting more easily than in architecture, which Bluemner had formerly practiced. Yet architecture as a means of creating a dynamic pictorial structure remained a constant in his aesthetic vision. Over the years, his use of color and manipulation of formal components became increasingly bold and planar. His color theories - derived from Goethe and others - equated hue with emotion. Describing color as 'psychological plasma,' he associated his favored red with women and sex. He even called himself and was called by others the 'vermillionaire.' Colors other than red, however, can be found in Bluemner's fusions of man-made structures and nature. A Situation in Yellow was exhibited in his last one-artist show in 1935, entitled 'Composition for Color Themes.' While red predominated in the works exhibited, several paintings were composed of yellow, green, and blue. Signed 'Florianus' (the middle name he assumed in 1933), the Museum's painting deals more with a mood than with observed facts. At the end of his life, Bluemner noted of his work in general that he used the combination of 'lemon yellow and black to stir up an exquisite sensation.' The color was also connected for him with the 'yellow jealousies of Othello.' The dominant house shapes of A Situation in Yellow, set amid gaunt , gray trees and earth and against a vermillion backdrop, remain Bluemner's major essay in the color. Context - Person: Patterson Sims Context - Date: 1985 Context - Place: Catalog: 'Whitney Museum of American Art: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection' Context - Place: Publisher: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Exhibition History: "In a Classical Vein: Selections from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition History: (1) "American Art 1900-1940: A History Reconsidered" Exhibition History: (2)American Art, 1900-1940: A History Reconsidered Exhibition History: "An American Story" Exhibition History: Leonard & Evelyn Lauder Galleries Exhibition History: The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000 (Part I) Exhibition History: Highlights from the Permanent Collection: From Hopper to Mid-Century Related Multimedia Description: Antenna Audio: Permanent Collection Tour Link to Multimedia: WMAA.AA200101.16.mp3 AMICA ID: WMAA.67.66 Component Measured: object Measurement Dimension: height Measurement Value: 91.44 Measurement Unit: cm Measurement Dimension: width Measurement Value: 128.27 AMICA Library Year: 2001 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright Whitney Museum of American Art AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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