Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, partially overpainted): 50 / hans/ [.....]
[Kootz Gallery, New York, 1950–51; sold in January 1951 to Neuberger]; Mr. and Mrs. Roy R. Neuberger, New York (1951; their gift to MMA)
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America," January 23–March 25, 1951, no. 46 [the exhibition traveled in modified format as "Abstract Painting in America" through April 14, 1952].
Dallas Museum of Art. "Abstract Painting in America," October 1–22, 1951.
Saint Paul, Minn. Saint Paul Gallery and School of Art. "Abstract Painting in America," November 5–26, 1951.
Winnipeg Art Gallery. "Abstract Painting in America," December 10–31, 1951.
Toledo Museum of Art. "Abstract Painting in America," January 13–27, 1952.
Louisville, Ky. Speed Art Museum. "Abstract Painting in America," February 18–March 10, 1952.
Carbondale. Southern Illinois University. "Abstract Painting in America," March 24–April 14, 1952.
Seattle Art Museum. "Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture," February 4–April 5, 1953, unnum. brochure.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. checklist.
San Juan. El Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. "Arte del Siglo Veinte: EE.UU. del Museo Metropolitano de Arte," April 19–May 31, 1974, no. 26.
Southampton, N. Y. Parrish Art Museum. "Twentieth Century American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 25–December 31, 1977, no. 24.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. "La Peinture Américaine au 20e Siècle de la Collection du Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 28–August 23, 1978, no. 23 (as "La Fenêtre").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Tribute to a Curator: Robert Beverly Hale," November 16, 1978–March 4, 1979, extended to March 18, 1979, unnum. checklist.
Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York at Purchase. "Roy R. Neuberger: Patron of the Arts," April 25–July 25, 1993, no. 32.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Hans Hofmann in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 13–October 17, 1999, unnumbered cat. (pl. 1).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Hans Hofmann: Selected Paintings," November 18, 2014–April 19, 2015, no catalogue.
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California at Berkeley. "Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction," February 27–July 21, 2019, no. 34.
Salem, Mass. Peabody Essex Museum. "Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction," September 21, 2019–January 6, 2020, no. 34.
Emily Genauer. "Art and Artists: Why an Abstract Show?" New York Herald Tribune (January 28, 1951), p. D5.
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, pp. 194–95, ill.
Doris Reno. "Miami's Old 17th Century Friend Found Shining in a New Setting." Miami Herald (August 22, 1965), p. 21E.
Nan Robertson. "Capital Toasts the 'Koch Gallery of Art'." New York Times (July 30, 1969), p. 22, notes that this work is on loan from "an unnamed museum" to the congressional office of Representative Ed Koch.
Shirley Glubok. The Art of America Since World War II. New York, 1976, p. 17, ill.
Helen A. Harrison. Twentieth Century American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Parrish Art Museum. Southampton, N. Y., 1977, p. 30, no. 24, ill.
Helen A. Harrison inLa Peinture Américaine au 20e Siècle de la Collection du Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Brussels, 1978, unpaginated, no. 23, ill., reprints Ref. Harrison 1977.
Eugene Victor Thaw. "The Abstract Expressionists." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 44 (Winter 1986–87), p. 29, fig. 22 (color).
Grace Glueck. "An Abstractionist Dancing with Color." New York Times (May 21, 1999), p. E32.
Patricia Stark Feinstein. "Sam Feinstein and Hans Hofmann." Provincetown Arts 23 (2008/2009), p. 65, ill. (in progress in the artist's studio, 1950), relates that Sam Feinstein filmed the artist at work on this painting in the summer of 1950.
Suzi Villiger, ed. Hans Hofmann: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings. Vol. 2, Catalogue Entries P1–P846 (1901–1951). Surrey, 2014, pp. 458–49, no. P750, ill. (color).
David Carrier. "Hans Hofmann. Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings." Burlington Magazine 157 (June 2015), p. 422.
Inés Vallejo and Manuel Fontán del Junco inThe Irascibles: Painters Against the Museum, New York, 1950. Ed. Bradford R. Collins et al. Exh. cat., Fundación Juan March. Madrid, 2020, p. 15, fig. 1 (installation view Exh. New York 1951).
Beatriz Cordero inThe Irascibles: Painters Against the Museum, New York, 1950. Ed. Bradford R. Collins et al. Exh. cat., Fundación Juan March. Madrid, 2020, pp. 82–83.
Bradford R. Collins et al., ed. The Irascibles: Painters Against the Museum, New York, 1950. Exh. cat., Fundación Juan March. Madrid, 2020, ill. p. 235, no. D24, (catalogue for Exh. New York 1951).
Hans Hofmann (American (born Germany), Wessenburg 1880–1966 New York)
1965
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