1912
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Dominant colour
Landscape with Two Poplars is a 1912 oil by Wassily Kandinsky, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
Kandinsky painted bright yellow, red, blue, and green shapes across a landscape scene. Two tall poplars stand in the foreground, their trunks dark against the colorful background. Wavy blue mountains sit near the horizon line. This picture is from 1912, when Kandinsky was shifting toward abstract art. The colors feel almost musical, like notes on a page. He uses thick paint in some spots, where the brushstrokes stand up off the canvas. See it in person at the Art Institute of Chicago.
The artist; sold to Arthur Jerome Eddy (1859-1920), Chicago, 1913 [this and the following according to statement by Vivian Endicott Barnett, June 2011; copy in curatorial file]; by descent to his wife Lucy O. Eddy (1863-1931) and son Jerome O. Eddy (1891-1951), Chicago, 1920;given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1931.
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 779, as Two Poplars. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Cubism and Abstract Art, Mar. 2–Apr. 19, 1936, cat. 102. New York, Museum of Non-Objective Paintings, In Memory of Wassily Kandinsky, Mar. 15–May 15, 1945. Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, Wassily Kandinsky Memorial Exhibition, Nov. 2–30, 1945. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1946, Apr. 11-May 12, 1946. Minneapolis, MN, University Gallery, University of Minnesota, German Expressionism in Art,…
Manuel Fontán Del Junco, José Lebrero Stals, María Zozaya Álvarez, ed., Astritt Schmidt-Burkhardt, Uwe Fleckner, Eugenio Carmona, Manuel Lima, Genealogies of Art, or The History of Art as Visual Art, exh. cat. (, 2020), 188, 189 (color ill.), 457, cat. 80.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist active in Germany during the late Belle Époque and Interwar eras.
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