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Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938)

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Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938)
Evening Tones
signed with artist's monogram 'OBLümner' (lower center)--signed again on the lower tacking edge; signed again and inscribed with title on the stretcher
oil on canvas
14 1/8 x 20 in. (35.9 x 50.8 cm.)

The estate of the artist.
Acquired by the present owner by 1963.

Specialist note

This work, executed during 1911-1917, was also titled Bronx River at Mt. Vernon. The painting is one of three heretofore unlocated early oils by Oscar Bluemner, and is documented, along with record sketches, in Bluemner's first Painting Diary (Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art, New York, Mircofilm Roll 339: Frame 114 [1911]; Frame 482 [1917]).