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Title:Backyards, Brooklyn
Artist:Ogden M. Pleissner (American, New York 1905–1983 London)
Date:1932
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:24 × 30 1/8 in. (61 × 76.5 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1932
Accession Number:32.80.2
Inscription: Signed (lower right): Pleissner
the artist, Brooklyn (1932; sold through the Macbeth Gallery, New York to MMA)
New York. Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews. November 15–December 15, 1955, no catalogue.
Museum of the City of New York. "The Artist in New York," April 17–September 1, 1958, unnum. checklist.
Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn at Brooklyn College. "Brooklyn Themes: Art in the Years of Roosevelt and La Guardia," October 26–December 7, 1982, unnum. brochure (checklist no. 37).
Bronx Museum of the Arts. "The Artist Celebrates New York: Selected Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 2–March 24, 1985, unnum. brochure.
Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus. "The Artist Celebrates New York: Selected Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 17–June 2, 1985, unnum. brochure.
Queens. Jamaica Arts Center. "The Artist Celebrates New York: Selected Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 15–July 27, 1985, unnum. brochure.
Staten Island Museum. "The Artist Celebrates New York: Selected Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 8–October 20, 1985, unnum. brochure.
New York. City College of New York. "The Artist Celebrates New York: Selected Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 25–December 13, 1985, unnum. brochure.
Tulsa, Okla. Philbrook Museum of Art. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 14–June 9, 1991, no. 15.
Miami. Center for the Fine Arts. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 29–August 24, 1991, no. 15.
Omaha. Joslyn Art Museum. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 14–November 10, 1991, no. 15.
Tampa Museum of Art. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," December 14, 1991–February 8, 1992, no. 15.
Greenville, S. C. Greenville County Museum of Art. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 17–May 10, 1992, no. 15.
Madison, Wisc. Madison Art Center. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 6–August 2, 1992, no. 15.
Grand Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapids Art Museum. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 11–November 8, 1992, no. 15.
Edward Alden Jewell. "Metropolitan Buys Four More." New York Times (June 17, 1932), p. 22.
Edward Alden Jewell. "The Metropolitan's New Policy: Recent Acquisition of Fifteen Works by Native Living Artists Symptomatic of Revised Trend—Is the Group Representative?" New York Times (June 26, 1932), P. X6.
B[ryson]. B[urroughs]. "Notes: Contemporary American Paintings." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 27 (July 1932), p. 181, calls it "Backyards" and notes that it is currently on view in the museum's Room of Recent Accessions.
"Metropolitan Buys Nine Paintings by American Artists." Art News 30 (July 16, 1932), p. 4.
Carlyle Burrows. "Many Painters, Varied Modes Seen in Brooklyn Group Show; Nine American Paintings." New York Herald Tribune (June 19, 1932), p. F8.
"Metropolitan Buys 9 Recent U.S. Paintings." New York Herald Tribune (June 16, 1932), p. 14.
"Works of Contemporary Americans Acquired by Metropolitan." New York Herald Tribune (June 26, 1932), p. G4, ill.
"Brooklyn Artist Depicts Charm of Local Backyards." Brooklyn Daily Eagle (July 17, 1932), p. A11, ill., calls it "Backyards".
"The Hearn Collection." Art Digest 11 (July 1, 1937), p. 25, calls it "Backyards".
W. S. Hall. Eyes on America: The United States as Seen by her Artists. New York, 1939, p. 31, ill.
"Ogden M. Pleissner: A Distinguished Painter of American Landscape." American Artist 6 (March 1942), p. 5.
"H. E. Winlock, Ex-Head of Art Museum, Dead." New York Herald Tribune (January 27, 1950), p. 16.
Albert Ten Eyck Gardner. A Concise Catalogue of the American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1957, p. 36.
Robert M. Coates. "The Art Galleries: East Side, West Side." New Yorker (June 14, 1958), p. 121.
Henry C. Joralemon. "Ogden Pleissner, Brooklyn Artist." Long Island Forum 15 (September 1962), p. 191, ill. front cover.
Marchen Skinner. "Ogden M. Pleissner." Bennington Banner (June 25, 1965), p. 6A.
Lowery S. Sims. The Artist Celebrates New York: Selected Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. brochure, Bronx Museum of the Arts. New York, 1985, unpaginated.
Paul Richard. "Mixing It Up At the Metropolitan: Standards & Surprises at the Museum's New Wallace Wing." Washington Post (February 1, 1987), p. F9.
Lisa M. Messinger inThe Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., American Federation of Arts. New York, 1991, p. 41.
Lowery Stokes Sims inThe Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., American Federation of Arts. New York, 1991, pp. 54, 59, no. 15, ill. p. 55 (color).
William Lach, ed. "Betty Smith from 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'." New York, New York: The City in Art and Literature. New York, 2000, ill. p. 132 (color detail).
Georgette Gouveia. "Art in Bloom." Journal News (White Plains, N.Y.) (March 21, 2002), p. E1.
Edward Hopper (American, Nyack, New York 1882–1967 New York)
1930
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