id:			163019
accession number:	2003.55
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.55
updated:		2023-04-23 11:16:02.622000

Tan Still Life, c. 1932. Alfred Maurer (American, 1868–1932). Gouache ; overall: 25.4 x 37.9 cm (10 x 14 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Tommy and Gill LiPuma in loving memory of Josephine LiPuma Kestner 2003.55

title:				Tan Still Life
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creation date:			c. 1932
creation date earliest:		1927
creation date latest:		1937
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creditline:			Gift of Tommy and Gill LiPuma in loving memory of Josephine LiPuma Kestner
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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	gouache 
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - American 20th Century
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Alfred Maurer (American, 1868–1932)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 25.4 x 37.9 cm (10 x 14 15/16 in.)
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	description:	paper board, mounted to thin paper board
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; March 28 - July 18, 2004. "Modern American Masters: Highlights from the Gill and Tommy LiPuma Collection".

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PROVENANCE

	Hudson Walker; Babcock Galleries, New York; ACA Galleries, New York; Sotheby's New York (sale of December 5, 1996, lot 195).
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During the last years of his life, from about 1927 to 1932, Maurer painted a series of still lifes that contributed significantly to the Cubist revival that swept America in the 1920s. This Cubist design is especially severe—the forms clarified and reduced to a few, distinct shapes isolated in the center of the composition. Forms rarely overlap across the thin painted surface. Decorative stripes, zigzags, and dots further distinguish the individuality of each shape and at the same time add lateral vibrancy to the design. The painting’s lucid structure points toward the reductive simplicity that distinguished American Cubism of the 1930s and contributed to the leaner geometries of the American Abstract Artists, a group founded in New York in 1937. Although Maurer ranks among America’s most inventive and prolific artists, he failed to received significant critical recognition during his lifetime.
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