About This Artwork

Fritz Glarner
Swiss, 1899–1972

Relational Painting, No. 82, 1957

Oil on canvas
43 7/8 x 32 in. (111.5 x 81.3 cm)
Bequest of Richard S. Zeisler, 2007.277

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

San Francisco Museum of Art, Fritz Glarner, November 13-December 27, 1970; traveled to Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, January 15-February 29, 1971; and Art Museum, University of Iowa, March 17-April 30, 1971, cat. 8.

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Post-Mondrian Abstraction in America, March 13-May 13, 1973, no cat (illus.).

Berne, Kunsthalle, Fritz Glarner, August 12-September 24, 1972.
Coral Gables, The Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Less is More: The Influence of the Bauhaus on American Art, February 7-March 10, 1974, cat. 49.

Lugano, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Fritz Glarner, September 9-November 7, 1993.

Zurich, Haus für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Fritz Glarner, January 21-March 1994.

Nassau County Museum of Art, American Vanguards, January 7-May 12, 1996.

Publication History

Natalie Edgar, Fritz Glarner, exh. cat. (San Francisco: Museum of Art, 1970).

Kunsthalle Berne, Fritz Glarner, exh. cat. (Berne: Kunsthalle, 1972).

Stephen S. Prokopoff, Post-Mondrian Abstraction in America, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1973).

The Lowe Art Museum, Less is More: The Influence of the Bauhaus on American Art, exh. cat. (Coral Gables: The Lowe Art Museum, 1974).

Margit Weinberg-Staber, Fritz Glarner (Zurich: ABC-Verlag, 1976).

Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Fritz Glarner, exh. cat. (Lugano: Museo Cantonale d’Arte, 1993).

Terry Knight, Transformations in Design: A Formal Approach to Stylistic Change and Innovation in the Visual Arts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Haus für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Fritz Glarner, exh. cat. (Zurich: Haus für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, 1994).

Nassau County Museum of Art, American Vanguards, exh. cat. (Nassau: Museum of Art, 1996).

Ownership History

Graham, New York, by January 24, 1968; sold to Richard Zeisler, New York, January 24, 1968 [receipt in curatorial file].