Max Weber

(American, 1881-1961)

Winter Twilight

oil on canvas

signed Max Weber (lower right)

30 x 40 inches.

Provenance:

Mr. and Mrs. Buell Hammett

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California

Sotheby's Arcade, New York, May 27, 1998, lot 335

Hindman, Chicago, December 15, 2003, lot 7

Exhibited:

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Painting Today and Yesterday in the United States, June 5-September 1, 1941

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 52nd Annual Exhibition of American Paintings & Sculpture, October 30, 1941- January 4,1942, no. 214, pl. II, illus.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Romantic Painting in America, November 17, 1943-February 6, 1944, pp. 40, 92, no. 203, illus.

Max Weber: Retrospective Exhibition, traveling exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of Art, New York, February 5-March 27,1949; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 17-May 29, 1949, pp. 32, 43, 61, no. 45, illus.

First Comprehensive Retrospective Exhibition in the West of oil, gouaches, pastels, drawings and graphic works by Max Weber (1881-1961), traveling exhibition organized by The Art Galleries, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, February 6-March 3, 1968; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, April 19-May 19, 1968; Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, Arizona, May 28-June 25, 1968; The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, California, July 5- August 18, 1968, pp. 29, 64, no. 31, illus.

Literature:

American Artist Group, Inc., Max Weber, Illustrated Monographs 4, New York, 1945, illus.

Surface dirt. Light pattern of craquelure throughout. No evidence of restoration under UV light.

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