Details

Provenance

Provenance<br> <br> <br> <br> Estate of the artist.<br> <br> Zabriskie Gallery, New York.<br> <br> Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Reed, New Jersey.<br> <br> Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York.<br> <br> Acquired by the present owners from the above, 1980.

Exhibited

Exhibited<br> <br> <br> <br> San Diego, California, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego,<br> <br> Color and Form, 1909-1914<br> <br> , November 1971-Janaury 1972, no. 6 (and traveling).<br> <br> Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Milton and Sally Avery Center for the Arts, The Bard College Center,<br> <br> Konrad Cramer: A Retrospective<br> <br> , November 1981-January 1982, pl. 5, illustrated (and traveling).<br> <br> New York, Whitney Museum of American Art,<br> <br> Konrad Cramer: The Abstract Work<br> <br> , March-May 1984.<br> <br> New York, Barbara Mathes Gallery, Inc.,<br> <br> Mabel Dodge: The Salon Years, 1912-1917<br> <br> , September-November 1985, pl. 1, illustrated.<br> <br> Youngstown, Ohio, The Butler Institute of American Art,<br> <br> Masterpieces of American Modernism: The Rambach Collection<br> <br> , January-April 1998, illustrated.

Literature

Literature<br> <br> <br> <br> A.A. Davidson,<br> <br> Early American Modernist Painting 1910-1935<br> <br> , New York, 1981, p. 154, fig. 86, illustrated.<br> <br> G. Levin, "Konrad Cramer Link from the German to the American Avant Garde,"<br> <br> Arts Magazine<br> <br> , 1982, p. 145, illustrated.

Catalog summary

Konrad Cramer (1888-1963) Improvisation oil on board laid down on board 16 x 18¾ in. (40.7 x 47.7 cm)