Summer

1927

Bernard Karfiol

Associated Names
Bernard Karfiol

Painter, American, born Hungary, 1886 - 1952

The image shows three figures seated around a wooden table set indoors. The person on the left is a woman with short, blonde hair, wearing a long, beige robe. In the middle, there is another person with short dark hair, wearing a blue dress. To the right, a shirtless young man with curly brown hair is visible, sitting next to an open book on the table. An earthen vase with green leaves and orange flowers sits on the table. Through an archway in the background, there is a view of a calm blue sea with rocky formations and part of a lush green landscape on the right.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist; purchased October 1928 through (Frank K.M. Rehn Gallery, New York)[1] by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] According to a Corcoran accession document, in NGA curatorial files, the painting was in the possession of "F.K.M. Rehn" when purchased, but the painting was likely still on consignment from the artist. In April 1927 Karfiol consigned three paintings to Rehn, one of which was titled "Three Figures;" see Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries Records, 1858-1969, Terra Foundation Center for Digital Collections, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1928

  • Eleventh Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 28 October - 9 December 1928, no. 132, repro.

1939

  • An Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors and Drawings by Bernard Karfiol, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, May - June 1939, no. 14, repro.

1957

  • Twenty-fifth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Toledo Museum of Art, 13 January - 30 April 1957, no. 11.

1963

  • Maine and Its Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 12 December 1963 - 14 March 1964.

  • Colby College Sesquicentennial Exhibition: Art in Maine, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, 4 May - 31 August 1963.

1981

  • Of Time and Place: American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Cincinnati Art Museum; San Diego Museum of Art; University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga; Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Des Moines Art Center; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, 1981-1983, no. 43.

1985

  • Henri's Circle, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 20 April - 16 June 1985, unnumbered checklist.

1995

  • Isabel Bishop and Bernard Karfiol: The Realist and the Romantic, Ogunquit Museum of Art, Maine, 1-29 August 1995.

1998

  • The Forty-Fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907–1998, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 17 July - 29 September 1998, unnumbered catalogue.

2011

  • Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties, Brooklyn Museum; Dallas Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011-2012, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

2011

  • Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 304, repro.

Inscriptions

lower left, incised: Bernard Karfiol

Wikidata ID

Q46634474

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