Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, Jawlensky fled to Switzerland, settling in St. Prex on Lake Geneva. After his move, he abandoned portraiture and worked on a series of landscapes in a smaller, vertical format. He said of these works, "I painted a great many pictures which I called �Variations on a Landscape Theme.' They are songs without words."
Details
- Artist Name: Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
- Title: Variation: Summer Blessing
- Date: 1916
- Medium: Oil on textured wove paper mounted on cardboard
- Dimensions: 14-1/4 x 10-3/4 in. (36.2 x 27.3 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.139
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum
Object Information
Galka Scheyer, by 1920;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.
Jawlensky exhibition
- Galerie Twardy, 1923-03-05 to
Jawlensky in Switzerland 1914-1921
- Zurich, Kunsthaus, 2000-10-27 to 2001-01-14
- Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, 2001-01-26 to 2001-05-13
- Duisburg, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, 2001-06-30 to 2001-09-09
A. Jawlensky: Gemalde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen
- Hagen, Museum Folkwang, 1922-03 to 1922-04
- Jena, Kunstverein, 1922-05-07 to 1922-06-07
Jawlensky
- Los Angeles, Stendahl Art Galleries, 1940-05-13 to 1940-06-01
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- Braxton Gallery, 1930-03-16 to 1930-03-31
Gesamt-Ausstellung Alexei von Jawlensky
- Fritz Gurlitt (Gallery), 1920-06 to 1920-07
- Munich, Galerie Hans Goltz, 1920-08-16 to 1920-09-11
- Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1920-09-30 to 1920-10-28
- Frankfurt-am-Main, Galerie Schames, 1920-11 to 1920-12
- Wiesbaden, Nassauischer Kunstverein und Wiesbadener Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunste, 1921-01-09 to 1921-02
- Barmen, Kunstverein/Ruhmeshalle, 1921-03 to 1921-04
- Dusseldorf, Graphisches Kabinett J. B. Neumann, 1921-05 to 1921-06
- Mannheim, Kunsthalle, 1921-11-06 to 1921-12-04
- Essen, Kunstmuseum, 1922-02 to 1922-03
Selections from the Galka E. Scheyer Blue Four Collection
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-10-02 to 1973-11-18
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- Oakland Art Gallery, 1931-08 to 1931-09-14
Alexei Jawlensky
- Norton Simon Museum, 1987-08-06 to 1987-12-13
Selections from the Galka E. Scheyer Collection
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1970-09-08 to 1970-12-17
Abstract Art Show
- Mills College Art Gallery, 1939-10-19 to 1939-12-03
Selections from Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee. The Blue Four Galka E. Scheyer Collection
- Seattle Art Museum, 1956-10-10 to 1956-11-04
- Portland, Portland Art Museum, 1956-11-08 to 1956-11-30
- , 1957-01-01 to 1957-01-31
- Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, 1957-03-02 to 1957-04-01
- Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, 1957-11-15 to 1957-12-15
- San Francisco Museum of Art, 1958-01-14 to 1958-02-23
- Vancouver Art Gallery, 1956-07 to 1956-08-31
Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee. The Blue Four Galka E. Scheyer Collection
- Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, 1955-05-27 to 1955-08-30
Jawlensky and the Serial Image
- Irvine, University of California, University Art Gallery, 1966-03-11 to 1966-03-31
- Riverside, University of California, Art Gallery, 1966-04-04 to 1966-04-30
Visions and Icons: the Art of Alexei Jawlensky
- Norton Simon Museum, 1990-01-18 to 1991-04-14
Maven of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in California
- Norton Simon Museum, 2017-04-07 to 2017-09-25
The Galka Scheyer Collection: Klee, Nolde, Jawlensky, Moholy-Nagy, Schmidt-Rottluff, Schwitters, Archipenko, Kandinsky, Lissitzky, Feininger, Kirchner, Dix_1
- La Jolla, Art Center in La Jolla, 1960-07-05 to 1960-08-14
The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World
- Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14
The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum
- Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05
Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941)
- Norton Simon Museum, 2007-05-04 to 2007-11-05
Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31
Bauhaus Painters; Spirit of Modernism: Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, Oskar Schlemmer, Alexander Archipenko, Alexei Jawlensky and Others
- Seoul, Ho-Am Art Museum, 1996-02-08 to 1996-04-28
My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four
- Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
- Weiler, Clemens, Alexej Jawlensky: Heads, Faces, Meditations, 1971, no. 1192
- The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 129 pp. 50, 53
- Jawlensky, Maria, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1914-1933, 1992, no. 781
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 144 pp. 127-129
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