1916
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Farm near Duivendrecht is a 1916 oil by Piet Mondrian, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
You see a farmhouse, trees, and fields under a pale sky—all in soft blues, greens, and browns. This is Mondrian before he became famous for grids and primary colors. He painted this same farm over and over, each time stripping away a little more detail. By 1916, the shapes are almost flat, like cut-out paper. If you like how simple lines can still feel like a real place, look up *glazing*—the technique he used to build up thin, see-through layers of paint.
Though Piet Mondrian is best known for his nonrepresentational paintings, his basic vision was rooted in landscape. He was particularly inspired by the flat topography of his native Holland, a subject he returned to even after he had begun working in an abstract style after attending an exhibition of the Cubist paintings of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in 1911. Mondrian first sketched this farm around 1905. Nine of the twenty known related paintings and drawings of the farm, however, were created later, during World War I. Mondrian likely returned to the subject because his wartime…
The artist; Dr. Eduard van der Hoop (died 1939) and Lea van der Hoop (died 1938), Amsterdam, c. 1916 [according to notes from Dolly J. van der Hoop Schoenberg included on deed of gift, Nov. 18, 2001, in curatorial object file]; by descent to Dolly J. van der Hoop, Amsterdam [list of lenders to Amsterdam 1946, Stedelijk Museum, Library and Archives, copy in curatorial object file]; by marriage to Isaac (died 1973) and Dolly J. van der Hoop Schoenberg (died 2014, Madison, WI), 1950; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2001.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Piet Mondrian, Nov. 6–Dec. 16, 1946, not in cat.; Kunsthalle Basel, Feb.6–Mar. 2, 1947 (Amsterdam only). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Collects 20th Century, Oct. 3–Nov. 17, 1963, no cat. no. (as Landscape with Farmhouse). Art Gallery of Toronto, Piet Mondrian, 1872–1944, Feb. 12–Mar. 20, 1966, not in cat.; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Apr. 8–May 9, 1966; Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, June 15–Aug. 7, 1966 (Philadelphia only). Pasadena Art Museum, Serial Imagery, Sept. 17–Oct. 27, 1968, cat. 44; Seattle, University of Washington, Henry Art Museum, Nov.…
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Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (Dutch: ; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), known after 1911 as Piet Mondrian (, US also ; Dutch: ), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician, who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
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