Summer, 1927

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Medium

oil on canvas

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.50

Artists / Makers

Bernard Karfiol (painter) American, born Hungary, 1886 - 1952

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Inscription

lower left, incised: Bernard Karfiol

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery

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

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

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.