Oscar Florianus Bluemner US, 1867-1938
Exhibitions
Intimate Gallery, New York, Oscar Bluemner: New Paintings, A Series of “Water Colors” (Synthetic Medium) and 6 Oils—of Suns, Moons, Etc.,Facts and Fancy—Strains or Moods, February 28–March 27, 1928, no. 3 //
New York Cultural Center in association with Fairleigh DickinsonUniversity, Oscar Bluemner: Paintings, Drawings, December 16, 1969–March 8, 1970, no. 87 (as Silver Moonlight) //
William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, An Alumnus Salutes Dickinson College 200th Anniversary from the Collection of Meyer and Vivian Potamkin, November 19, 1972–January 3, 1973, no. 14 //
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, American Art from the Collection of Vivian and Meyer P. Potamkin, June 10–October 1, 1989, no. 8 //
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; and New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, Oscar Bluemner: Landscapes of Sorrow and Joy, December 10, 1988 September 3, 1989, no. 73 //
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, Oscar Bluemner: American Modernist, April 12–June 6, 1997 //
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color, October 7, 2005–February 12, 2006 //
James Graham & Sons, New York, James Graham & Sons: A Century and a Half in the Art Business, 1857–2007, May 10–June 29, 2007, no. 44 //
Menconi + Schoelkopf, New York, Bluemner and the Critics, November 9–December 17, 2021, no. 18
Publications
Oscar Bluemner papers, 1886–1939, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution //
Alfredo Valente and John Davis Hatch, Oscar Bluemner: Paintings, Drawings, New York Cultural Center, 1969, no. 87 (as Silver Moonlight) //
An Alumnus Salutes Dickinson College 200th Anniversary from the Collection of Meyer and Vivian Potamkin, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: William Penn Memorial Museum, 1973, p. 50, no. 14, illus. p. 30 //
Jeffrey R. Hayes, “Oscar Bluemner: Life, Art, and Theory,” PhD diss., University of Maryland, 1982, vol. II: pp. 327–28; vol. III: Appendix II: “Checklist of Bluemner’s ‘Sun & Moon’ Watercolors Series, 1927,” p. 430, illus. fig. 85 //
Jeffrey R. Hayes, Oscar Bluemner: Landscapes of Sorrow and Joy, Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1988, no. 73, illus. //
American Art from the Collection of Vivian and Meyer P. Potamkin, Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1989, p. 8 //
Jeffrey R. Hayes, Oscar Bluemner, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 129, 131, illus. fig. 86 //
Barbara Haskell, Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2005, p. 97, illus. fig. 86 //
Marcelle Polednik, “Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color,” American Art Review, October 2005, illus. p. 133 //
Barbara Haskell and Stephanie Lynn Schumann, “Suns and Moons", Antiques, November 2005, p. 126, illus. p. 123 //
Stephen May, “Oscar Bluemner: A Passion For Color", Antiques and the Arts Weekly, December 9, 2005, p. 70 //
Betsy Fahlman, James Graham & Sons: A Century and a Half in the ArtBusiness, 1857–2007, New York: James Graham & Sons, 2007, p. 46, illus. p. 44 //
Roberta Smith Favis, Bluemner and the Critics, New York: Menconi + Schoelkopf, 2021, pp. 73-74, no. 18, illus. p. 55
