Landscape with Two Poplars

1912

Vasily Kandinsky
Born Moscow (formerly Russian Empire, now Russia), 1866; died Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1944

Status: On View, Gallery 392
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Vasily Kandinsky
Title: Landscape with Two Poplars
Place: Germany (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.: 1912
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, l.r.: Kandinsky
Dimensions: 78.8 × 100.4 cm (31 × 39 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1931.508
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Manuel Fontán Del Junco, José Lebrero Stals, María Zozaya Álvarez, ed., Astritt Schmidt-Burkhardt, Uwe Fleckner, Eugenio Carmona, Manuel Lima, Genealogies of Art, or The History of Art as Visual Art, exh. cat. (, 2020), 188, 189 (color ill.), 457, cat. 80.

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 779, as Two Poplars.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Cubism and Abstract Art, Mar. 2–Apr. 19, 1936, cat. 102.
New York, Museum of Non-Objective Paintings, In Memory of Wassily Kandinsky, Mar. 15–May 15, 1945.
Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, Wassily Kandinsky Memorial Exhibition, Nov. 2–30, 1945.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1946, Apr. 11-May 12, 1946.
Minneapolis, MN, University Gallery, University of Minnesota, German Expressionism in Art, 1905–1935, Oct. 23–Nov 27, 1950.
Columbus, OH, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, German Expressionism, Feb. 9-Mar. 9, 1961.
Nagaoka, Japan, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago, April 20–May 29, 1994; traveled to Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994, and Yokohama Museum of Art, August 6–September 25, 1994.
Madrid, Fundacion Juan March, Oct. 11, 2019-Jan. 12, 2020, cat. 80; Málaga, Museo Picasso Málaga, Feb. 26, 2020-May 31, 2020.

The artist; sold to Arthur Jerome Eddy (1859-1920), Chicago, 1913 [this and the following according to statement by Vivian Endicott Barnett, June 2011; copy in curatorial file]; by descent to his wife Lucy O. Eddy (1863-1931) and son Jerome O. Eddy (1891-1951), Chicago, 1920;given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1931.

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