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Title:Burial
Artist:Bradley Walker Tomlin (American, Syracuse, New York 1899–1953 New York)
Date:1943
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:H. 30 1/4 x W. 44-1/4 in. (76.8 x 112.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:George A. Hearn Fund, 1943
Object Number:43.159.5
Inscription: Signed (upper right,scratched in paint): B. Tomlin
the artist (1943; sold through Frank K. M. Rehn, Inc., New York to MMA)
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "1943–44 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art: Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings," November 23, 1943–January 4, 1944, no. 102.
New York. Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries. "Paintings by Bradley Walker Tomlin," January 10–29, 1944.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Metropolitan and Whitney Museum Accessions," September 17–October 3, 1946, no catalogue.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Juliana Force and American Art: A Memorial Exhibition," September 24–October 30, 1949, no. 121.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Painters: A Special Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Drawings Selected from the Collections of American Art in the Metropolitan Museum," June 16–October 29, 1950, unnum. brochure (p. 12).
São Paulo. Belvedere Trianon. "I Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo," October 20–December 23, 1951.
Milwaukee Art Institute. "55 Americans: '55," September 9–October 23, 1955.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Bradley Walker Tomlin," September 25–November 12, 1957, no. 12.
Bloomington. Indiana University. "The Present-Day Vitality of the Classical Tradition," January 6–26, 1958, no. 73.
Southampton, N. Y. Parrish Art Museum. "Twentieth Century American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 25–December 31, 1977, no. 20.
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. 19 (as "Enterrement").
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Juliana Force's Selections for The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 1–May 11, 1980, no catalogue.
Munich. Haus der Kunst. "Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980," November 14, 1981–January 31, 1982, no. 124.
Utica, N.Y. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art. "The Art Triangle: Artist, Dealer, Collector," March 18–April 30, 1989, no. 90.
Buffalo, N.Y. Burchfield Art Center, Rockwell Hall, State University College at Buffalo. "The Art Triangle: Artist, Dealer, Collector," May 13–June 25, 1989, no. 90.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Still Life: 1915–1950," February 1, 1995–January 28, 1996, no catalogue.
Richmond, Va. Marsh Art Gallery. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," January 3–February 28, 1997, no. 4.
Little Rock. Arkansas Arts Center. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 28–May 23, 1997, no. 4.
Newport Beach, Calif. Newport Harbor Art Museum. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 20–August 15, 1997, no. 4.
Tulsa, Okla. Philbrook Museum of Art. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 12–November 7, 1997, no. 4.
Palm Beach, Fla. The Society of the Four Arts. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," January 9–February 8, 1998, no. 4.
Salina, Kansas. Salina Art Center. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 6–May 3, 1998, no. 4.
Bronxville, N. Y. Sarah Lawrence College Gallery. "Forging New Visions:Teaching the Visual Arts at Sarah Lawrence College," November 5–December 17, 2004.
Morgan Anderson Gallery of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz. "Bradley Walker Tomlin: A Retrospective," August 31–December 11, 2016, no. 24.
Syracuse. Everson Museum of Art. "Bradley Walker Tomlin: A Retrospective," February 10–May 14, 2017, no. 24.
"Museums Acquire 16 Pieces of Art." New York Times (December 30, 1943), p. 15.
Rosamund Frost. "Encore by Popular Demand: The Whitney." Art News 42 (December 1–14, 1943), p. 22.
Howard Devree. "Current Exhibitions in Brief." New York Times (January 16, 1944), p. X9.
"The Passing Shows." Art News 42 (January 15–31, 1944), p. 24, ill.
"Whitney Sales." Art News 42 (January 1–14, 1944), p. 6.
Margaret Breuning. "Tomlin's Paintings Seen in Excellent Show." Art Digest (January 15, 1944), p. 16.
Royal Cortissoz. "Prints, Paintings and Sculptures." New York Herald Tribune (January 16, 1944), p. C5.
Robert Beverly Hale. 100 American Painters of the 20th Century: Works Selected from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1950, ill. p. 88.
"Panorama of American 20th Century Art Exhibited." Santa Barbara News-Press (June 18, 1950), p. C-5.
John I. H. Baur. Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art. Cambridge, Mass., 1951, fig. 83.
John I. H. Baur. Bradley Walker Tomlin. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1957, pp. 25, 58, no. 12, ill. p. 29.
Howard Devree. "In Controversy: The Forceful Work of Emil Nolde—Bradley Tomlin's Decorative Art." New York Times (September 29, 1957), p. X17, ill.
Martica Sawin. "Bradley Walker Tomlin." Arts 32 (November 1957), p. 24, ill. p. 23.
John Ashbery. "Tomlin: The Pleasures of Color." Art News 56 (October 1957), pp. 28, 54, fig. 3.
Emily Genauer. "Museum Shows Abstractionist." New York Herald Tribune (September 29, 1957), p. E10.
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, p. 193, ill.
Harry Rand. "The 1930s and Abstract Expressionism." The Genius of American Painting. Ed. John Wilmerding. New York, 1973, ill. p. 299, erroneously calls it "No. 11," 1952–53.
Helen A. Harrison inTwentieth Century American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Parrish Art Museum. Southampton, N. Y., 1977, p. 26, no. 20, 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. 19, ill., reprints Ref. Harrison 1977.
Stephen Polcari. Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience. Cambridge, 1991, p. 323.
Lowery Stokes Sims inStill Life: The Object in American Art, 1915-1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Marsh Art Gallery, Richmond, Va. New York, 1996, p. 25.
Sabine Rewald inStill Life: The Object in American Art, 1915-1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Marsh Art Gallery, Richmond, Va. New York, 1996, pp. 32, 170, no. 4, ill. p. 33 (color).
Lowery Stokes Sims and Sabine Rewald inStill Life: The Object in American Art, 1915-1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Marsh Art Gallery, Richmond, Va. New York, 1996, p. 19.
D. Dominick Lombardi. "The Subtle Dynamics of Geometry in the Everyday World." New York Times (December 5, 2004), p. WE14.
Daniel Belasco inBradley Walker Tomlin: A Retrospective. Ed. Daniel Belasco. Exh. cat., Morgan Anderson Gallery of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz. New Paltz, 2016, pp. 74, 130, colorpl. 24.
Tom Wolf inBradley Walker Tomlin: A Retrospective. Ed. Daniel Belasco. Exh. cat., Morgan Anderson Gallery of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz. New Paltz, 2016, p. 111.
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, 95 n. 8.
Ellsworth Kelly (American, Newburgh, New York 1923–2015 Spencertown, New York)
1963
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