Exhibitions



April 29, 2022 - May 1, 2022
The Philadelphia Show 2022 – On View at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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March 27, 2020 - June 30, 2020
American Masters: Art of the 20th – 21st Centuries
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April 13, 2012 - June 12, 2012
American Masters: Art of the 19th – 21st Centuries
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Oscar Bluemner is considered one of the most influential figures of the American modernist era. Born in Germany, Bluemner was trained as an architect. In 1892 he emigrated to the United States and soon turned his attention to painting.
His early work consisted of poetic landscapes in watercolor, but a trip to Europe in 1912 led him to a very personal expressionist style using brilliant reds, blues and greens. Most of his subjects were industrial buildings, but his treatment combined linearity and jagged forms in an explosion of color totally unique to Bluemner.
Exhibitions with Somerville Manning Gallery
2022 American Masters – Art of the 19th-21st Centuries
2020 American Masters – Art of the 20th-21st Centuries
2012 American Masters – Art of the 19th-21st Centuries