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Oscar Bluemner

Rosy Light, 1927

Description

Maker

  • Oscar Bluemner, 1867-1938, American

Title

Rosy Light

Year

1927

Medium

Watercolor on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • watercolor

Supports

  • Antique color smooth medium weight wove paper

Dimensions

24.1 x 34.3 cm (9 1/2 x 13 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--LL corner:BLUMR

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

1992.001.23

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Modernism in the Americas

June 20 - August 31, 2003

Tradition and Innovation in American Watercolors

January 27 - April 11, 1999

After relocating from New Jersey to Braintree, Massachusetts, Bluemner began the most important series of his career, known as the "Suns and Moons," from which this drawing comes. In this group, he began to experiment with the watercolor medium in order to enhance its durability and sheen and to create a less expensive and more immediate way of producing results akin to oil painting. To his standard watercolor-and-gum-arabic mix, he added casein and more dry pigment, then he "varnished" each wash with formaldehyde. During this time he wrote in his journals about the process of watercolor painting: "[John] Marin floats them on with buckets of water [and] scraped out white light effects. I hammer the colors forcefully together."

Early Modernism in America

February 24 - April 16, 1995

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