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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Landscape with Two Poplars
    Vasily Kandinsky. Landscape with Two Poplars, 1912. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00000604

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    Landscape with Two Poplars

    by Vasily Kandinsky

    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

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