Primitives

1926

Max Weber

Artist, American, born Russia (now Poland), 1881 - 1961

The Spiral Press

Publisher

Joseph Blumenthal

Printer, American, 1897 - 1990

A. George Hoffman

Printer

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with facsimiles of 10 woodcuts and 1 linocut, including one signed by the artist

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jack and Margrit Vanderryn

  • Dimensions

    book (closed): 26.51 × 16.51 × 1.11 cm (10 7/16 × 6 1/2 × 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.114.21

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Kam Art & Book Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Jack and Margrit Vanderryn, Bethesda, Maryland, 1994; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1926

  • Weber, Max. Primitives: Poems and Woodcuts. New York: Spiral Press, 1926.

1982

  • Blumenthal, Joseph. Typographic Years: A Printer's Journey Through a Half Century. New York: Frederic C. Beil, 1982, no. 16.

2002

  • Burk, Efram L. "A Singular Vision: Max Weber's Artist Book, Primitives." Southeastern College Art Conference Review 14, no. 2 (2002): 127-136.

2013

  • Rubenstein, Daryl R. Max Weber: A Catalogue Raisonné of His Graphic Work. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2013, pp. 50, 57.

Inscriptions

center of colophon page in black ink: 35; lower right of Still Life, Two Vases in black ink: Max Weber

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