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Landscape with Two Poplars
Inscriptions
Signed, l.r.: Kandinsky
Provenance
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.
Exhibition history
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, 1905–1935, Oct. 23–Nov 27, 1950. Columbus, OH, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, German Expressionism, Feb. 9-Mar. 9, 1961. Nagaoka, Japan, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago, April 20–May 29, 1994; traveled to Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994, and Yokohama Museum of Art, August 6–September 25, 1994. Madrid, Fundacion Juan March, Oct. 11, 2019-Jan. 12, 2020, cat. 80; Málaga, Museo Picasso Málaga, Feb. 26, 2020-May 31, 2020.
Publications
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.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Vasily Kandinsky / Born Moscow (formerly Russian Empire, now Russia), 1866; died Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1944
- Date
- 1912
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 78.8 × 100.4 cm (31 × 39 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- Germany
- Department
- Modern Art
- Credit line
- Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1931.508
More by Vasily Kandinsky in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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