Maneuver for Position

1947

Bradley Walker Tomlin

Painter, American, 1899 - 1953

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On View

NGA, East Building, EU-401, S

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 78.7 x 116.8 cm (31 x 46 in.)
    framed: 81.3 x 119.4 x 4.4 cm (32 x 47 x 1 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.81.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Betty Parsons Gallery, New York); sold 1960 to Robert and Jane Meyerhoff, Phoenix, Maryland;[1] gift 1996 to NGA.
[1] Provenance from The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995, Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996: 260.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1947

  • Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1947-1948, no. 155.

1949

  • 9th Annual Exhibition, Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors National Arts Club, New York, 1949, no. 49.

1957

  • Bradley Walker Tomlin, travelling exh. to 8 venues, first venue: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1957-1958, no. 19, repro.

1958

  • 25 anni di Pittura Americana: 1935-1958, United States Information Agency, Rome, 1958, repro.

1964

  • Selections from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland, 1964.

1965

  • Summer Exhibition: American Paintings of the Twentieth Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1965.

1966

  • Selections form the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1966.

1973

  • Selections from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1973.

1975

  • Bradley Walker Tomlin: A Retrospective View, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska; University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1975-1976, pl. 38.

1978

  • Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1978.

1996

  • The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996, no. 185, color repro.

2014

  • Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, 2014, pl. 45.

Bibliography

1996

  • The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996: no. 185.

Inscriptions

lower center: B. Tomlin

Wikidata ID

Q20194002

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