Past Exhibition

Max Weber's Modern Vision

This painting shows intersecting angular shapes and curved lines, creating a complex pattern. The abstract artwork resembles a cityscape or an industrial scene, with overlapping forms suggesting tall buildings, spires, and arches. There are two tall towers made of overlapping geometric shapes on either side of the painting, with black paint filling the space from them until the edge of the canvas. Most of these shapes are a silver-blue color, while those in the center of the image are rusty red and light orange. The center generally has larger, wider shapes, although there is one group of small, tightly clustered gray shapes in the upper center.
Max Weber, Interior of the Fourth Dimension, 1913, oil on canvas, Gift of Natalie Davis Spingarn in memory of Linda R. Miller and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1990.78.1

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    West Building, Ground Floor, GS-1
This painting shows intersecting angular shapes and curved lines, creating a complex pattern. The abstract artwork resembles a cityscape or an industrial scene, with overlapping forms suggesting tall buildings, spires, and arches. There are two tall towers made of overlapping geometric shapes on either side of the painting, with black paint filling the space from them until the edge of the canvas. Most of these shapes are a silver-blue color, while those in the center of the image are rusty red and light orange. The center generally has larger, wider shapes, although there is one group of small, tightly clustered gray shapes in the upper center.
Max Weber, Interior of the Fourth Dimension, 1913, oil on canvas, Gift of Natalie Davis Spingarn in memory of Linda R. Miller and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1990.78.1

Overview: 26 works on paper and 2 paintings were displayed in this installation focusing on Max Weber's early years. The presentation contained works from the Gallery's collection, including the paintings Interior of the Fourth Dimension (1913), a gift of Natalie Davis Spingarn, and Rush Hour, New York (1915), a gift of the Avalon Foundation. Recent and promised gifts from Washington-area collectors Jack and Margrit Vanderryn were also featured in the exhibition.

Organization: Charles Ritchie, assistant curator of modern prints and drawings, was the curator.

Attendance: 27,827

Brochure: Max Weber's Modern Vision: Selections from the National Gallery of Art and Related Collections, by Charles Ritchie. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2000.

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