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Max Weber

Associated Names
Max Weber

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

The image shows an abstract composition within a blue rectangular border. Irregular and overlapping shapes are present, with dark, textured areas resembling facial contours like a forehead and an eye. A red shape in the lower left resembles lips, suggesting a human visage. The artwork features curved and wavy lines with speckled textures, creating an abstract quality.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jack and Margrit Vanderryn

  • Dimensions

    image: 10.64 × 5.08 cm (4 3/16 × 2 in.)
    sheet: 23.5 × 15.88 cm (9 1/4 × 6 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.114.13

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rubenstein 2013, no. 21

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Susan Sheehan, New York); Jack and Margrit Vanderryn, Bethesda, Maryland, 1987; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1987

  • American Modernist Prints: 1900-1945, Susan Sheehan, New York, 1987

Bibliography

1926

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

1956

  • Weber, Max. Woodcuts and Linoleum Blocks. New York: E. Weyhe, 1956.

1987

  • American Modernist Prints: 1900-1945. New York: Susan Sheehan, 1987, no. 17.

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. 168-169, no. 21.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: MAX WEBER

Wikidata ID

Q75407189

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