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Landscape (recto)

Vibrantly colored abstract painting suggesting a landscape and trees, with irregular outlined sections of green, yellow, orange, pink, and bright red.

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  • Vibrantly colored abstract painting suggesting a landscape and trees, with irregular outlined sections of green, yellow, orange, pink, and bright red.

Date:

1911–12

Artist:

Marguerite Thompson Zorach
American, 1887–1968

About this artwork

Marguerite Thompson Zorach was one of the first Americans to embrace abstract art, and she displayed her vividly colored canvases at some of the most important early exhibitions of modern art, including the 1913 Armory Show. Thompson spent three years (1908–11) studying in Paris, where she began painting in a Fauvist idiom and met her future husband, artist William Zorach. Although the location in this painting is unknown, Thompson might have made the brilliantly hued canvas while traveling back to the United States from Paris; her adventurous seven-month trip took her through Egypt, Palestine, India, Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Korea, and Japan. The wedges of color in the painting suggest the contours of a hill, yet their interlocking forms illustrate Thompson’s desire to create compositions that were “perfectly flat, no planes, distance, perspective, or anything.”

Status

On View, Gallery 271

Department

Arts of the Americas

Artist

Marguerite Zorach

Title

Landscape (recto)

Place

United States (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

c. 1911–1912

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

59.1 × 48.9 cm (23 1/4 × 19 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Roger and J. Peter McCormick Endowment

Reference Number

2009.583

Extended information about this artwork

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