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Smaragd Red and Germinating Yellow
1959
Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmann (American, 1880–1966)
American Painting and Sculpture
Smaragd Red and Germinating Yellow, 1959. Hans Hofmann (American, 1880–1966). Oil on canvas; framed: 144 x 106 x 4.5 cm (56 11/16 x 41 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.); unframed: 139.7 x 101.6 cm (55 x 40 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1960.57 © Estate of Hans Hofmann / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Maker/Artist
- Hofmann, Hans
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 144 x 106 x 4.5 cm (56 11/16 x 41 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 139.7 x 101.6 cm (55 x 40 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: On back of canvas in black crayon: Smaragd red and germiating yellow/oil on canvas, 55 x 40, 1959, Hans Hofmann/Cat.# 954/59
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1960.57
- Credit Line
- Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Exhibitions
- Paths of Abstract Art, Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty, Hans Hofmann, Fifty Years of Modern Art, Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976, Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960, Nuremberg, Germany, National Museum, 1962: Exhibition of One Hundred Important Paintings by Hofmann, cat. no. 70, German Gallery am Mariantor, Nuremburg (also circulated in Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Paris and London.)<br>Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966: Fifty Years of Modern Art, 1916-1966, cat. no. 137, repr.<br>Buffalo, Albright Knox Art Gallery, 1976: Heritage and Horizon: American Paintings 1776-1976, cat. no. 50, repr., (also to Detroit Institute of Arts, 1976, Toledo Museum of Art, 1976, and Cleveland Museum of Art, 1976.)<br>Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987: Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960, September 16-November 8, 1987, cat. no. 41, repr. p. 132.<br>New York, NY: Hans Hofmann, Whitney Museum of American Art, June 20-September 16, 1990 (traveled also to Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, and The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA but CMA painting exhibited at Whitney Museum only.)
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
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