Still Life

Arts of the Americas

1944

Max Weber (American, born Białystok, Russian Empire, now Poland, 1881–1961)

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Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Max Weber
Title: Still Life
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.: 1944
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed recto, bottom-right corner, in brown pigment: "MAX WEBER '44".
Dimensions: 78.9 × 102 cm (31 1/16 × 40 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Friends of American Art Collection; Goodman Fund
Reference Number: 1945.189

Paul Rosenberg & Co., Recent Paintings by Max Weber: February 5th to March 3rd, 1945, exh. cat. (New York: Paul Rosenberg & Co., 1945), cat. 6.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Fifty-Sixth Annual American Exhibition of Paintings, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1945), cat. 152.
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, New Accessions USA: [Catalog of] Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings Acquired by Major Art Museums of the United States, exh. cat. (Colorado Springs: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1946), cat. 10.
Lloyd Goodrich and Rosalind Irvine, Max Weber: Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1949), cat. 65.

New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co., Recent Paintings by Max Weber, Feb. 5–Mar. 3, 1945, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Fifty–Sixth Annual American Exhibition of Paintings, Oct. 25, 1945–Jan. 1, 1946, cat.
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, New Accessions USA, July 15–Sept. 2, 1946, cat.
OH, Cincinnati Art Museum, Six Americans, Oct. 1–Nov. 5, 1948.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Max Weber Retrospective Exhibition, Feb. 5–Mar. 27, 1949; Walker Art Center, Apr. 17–May 29, 1949, cat. 65.
Muskegon, MI, Hackley Art Gallery, Old Masters of Modern Art, Oct. 6–Nov. 17, 1958.
Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
IN, Fort Wayne Art School and Museum, Fort Wayne Fine Arts Festival, May 14–22, 1960, no cat.

The artist; sold to Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, Jun. 25, 1945 [stock book, Series IV, folder IV.A.2, Paul Rosenberg Archives, Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1945.

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