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Max Weber

The Visit, 1917

Not on View

Medium

aqueous and oil media on paper mounted on paperboard

Dimensions

overall: 92.08 × 76.2 cm (36 1/4 × 30 in.)

framed: 110.17 × 94.93 × 5.08 cm (43 3/8 × 37 3/8 × 2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Mrs. Francis Biddle)

Accession Number

2014.136.139

Artists / Makers

Max Weber (artist) American, born Poland, 1881 - 1961

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Inscription

lower right: MAX WEBER 1917

Provenance

The artist, until at least 1959.[1] Loretta and Robert K. Lifton.[2] (Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York); purchased 1979 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The artist lent the painting to a 1959 exhibition.

[2] The Liftons lent the painting to exhibitions in 1975 and 1977.

Associated Names

Barbara Mathes Gallery
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1946: Pioneers of Modern Art in American, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 9 April - 19 May 1946, no. 171.

1949: Max Weber Retrospective Exhibition, Whtiney Museum of American Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1949, no. 22.

1951: Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Architecture Building, University of Illinois, Urbana, 4 March - 15 April 1951, no catalogue, as Family Reunion, according to label on painting.

1955: A Collector's Choice, American Federation of Arts, New York, September 1955 - September 1956, no. 38.

1959: Max Weber Retrospective Exhibition, Newark Museum, 1 October - 15 November 1959, no. 25.

1975: Max Weber, Forum Gallery, New York, 25 October - 14 November 1975, no. 13, as The Visit: A Family Reunion.

1977: 20th Century American Art from Friends' Collections, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 27 July - 27 September 1977, unnumbered brochure.

1982: Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 5 November 1982 - 16 January 1983, unpublished checklist.

1991: Max Weber: The Cubist Decade, 1910-1920, High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Brooklyn Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991-1993, no. 70, repro., as The Visit (A Family Reunion) (shown only in Atlanta, Houston, and Washington).

2004: Figuratively Speaking: The Human Form in American Art, 1770-1950, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 20 November 2004 - 7 August 2005, unpublished checklist, as The Visit (A Family Reunion).

2005: Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 2005-2007, checklist no. 77 (shown only in Washington).

2008: The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1 March - 27 July 2008, unpublished checklist.

2013: American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

1981: Lewis, Jo Ann. "Artful Acquisitions at the Corcoran." The Washington Post (1981): B3.

2004: Nygren, Edward J., "American Genre: Its Changing Form and Content," in Of Time and Place: American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery (Washington, D.C., 2004): 18, 189, fig. 15.

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 323, repro.