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Bradley Walker Tomlin

Maneuver for Position, 1947

East Building, Upper Level — Elevator Lobby

Medium

oil on canvas

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.)

Credit Line

Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection

Accession Number

1996.81.2

Artists / Makers

Bradley Walker Tomlin (painter) American, 1899 - 1953

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Inscription

lower center: B. Tomlin

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

Meyerhoff, Robert E.

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.