Jawlensky's brightly colored shapes fill the picture space, and his broad brushstrokes accentuate the painted surface. He has simplified his forms but not lost sight of the "natural" elements of his landscape; nor has he transformed nature into total abstraction.
Details
- Artist Name: Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
- Title: White Cloud
- Date: 1909
- Medium: Oil on textured cardboard mounted on Masonite
- Dimensions: 13 x 17-5/8 in. (33.02 x 44.8 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.136
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum
Object Information
Galka Scheyer, by the 1930s;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.
Modern Art: Eighty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition
- Mills College Art Gallery, 1937-04 to 1937-05
Alexei Jawlensky
- Norton Simon Museum, 1987-08-06 to 1987-12-13
Jawlensky exhibition
- Seattle, Cornish School, 1939-03 to 1939-03
Homage to Jawlensky
- New York, Nierendorf Gallery, 1939-11-15 to
Visions and Icons: the Art of Alexei Jawlensky
- Norton Simon Museum, 1990-01-18 to 1991-04-14
The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum
- Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05
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
Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941)
- Norton Simon Museum, 2007-05-04 to 2007-11-05
My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four
- Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
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, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 103 p. 45
- von Berswordt-Wallrabe, Kornelia, Alexey von Jawlensky zum 50. Todesjahr: Gemälde und graphische Arbeiten, 1991, p. 28
- Jawlensky, Maria; Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1890-1914, 1991, no. 291
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 108 pp. 84-85
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