Blue Rhythm

Contemporary Art

1950

Hans Hofmann
American, born Germany, 1880-1966

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Hans Hofmann
Title: Blue Rhythm
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
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.: 1950
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Titled on verso; upper left in pencil: “Blue rythme 36 x 48 Canvas”
Dimensions: 121.9 × 91.4 cm (48 × 36 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Society for Contemporary American Art
Reference Number: 1952.200

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (1961), p. 218.
Hans Hofmann, Hans Hofmann: With An Introduction by Sam Hunter and Five Essays by Hans Hofmann (Harry N. Abrams, 1964), pl. 27.
Society for Contemporary American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, 26 Annual Exhibition by the Society for Contemporary American Art (1966), ill. (Not in exhibition).
Society for Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Society for Contemporary Art: 1940-1980 (1980), color ill.
Society for Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Society for Contemporary Art: 1940-2000 (2000), color ill.

New York, Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Hans Hofmann, October 24–November 13, 1950, cat. 12.
Chicago, Society for Contemporary American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, 12th Annual Exhibition, 1952, (no cat. found).
Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, New Accessions USA, July 1–September 5, 1954, cat. 9, ill.
Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat.
Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Gallery, Abstract Expressionism: A Tribute to Harold Rosenberg: Paintings and Drawings from Chicago Collections, October 11–November 25, 1979, cat. 18.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hans Hofmann, June 20–September 16, 1990, p. 96; traveled to Miami, Center for the Fine Arts, November, 1990–January, 1991, and Norfolk, Virginia, The Chrysler Museum, February–April, 1991.

Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York, by 1950; sold to Society for Contemporary American Art in 1950; given by them to the Art Institute, 1952.

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