Summer
1927
Painter, American, born Hungary, 1886 - 1952
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund)
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Dimensions
overall: 117.79 × 153.35 cm (46 3/8 × 60 3/8 in.)
framed: 127.32 × 162.88 × 7.94 cm (50 1/8 × 64 1/8 × 3 1/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.50
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