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[1956]

RELEASE

WE R PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT OUR PRINCIPPAL EXHIBITION FOR THIS FALL SEASON WILL BE AN EXHIBITION OF THE PAINTINGS OF OSCAR BLUEMNER, AMERICAN 1867-1938, TO BE HELD FROM NOVEMBER 15TH- DECEMBER 10TH.

RECOGNTION OF OSCAR BLUEMNER'S SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO MODERN ART IN AMERICA COMMENCED WITH HIS INCLUSION IN THE ARMORY SHOW OF 1913. HE HAD JUST RETURNED FROM GERMANY AFTER A YEAR'S STAY [[strikethrough]]AND STUDY AT THE SCENE OF HIS EARLY EXHIBITIONS.[[/strikethrough]] [[margin]]which included his second Berlin exhibition.[[/margin]] FROM THE TIME OF THE ARMORY ON, AN IMPRESSIVE NUMBER OF THE MOST DISCERNING GALLERIES GAVE EXHIBITIONS OF BLUEMNER'S WORK: HE WAS ONE OF THE GROUP OF ARTISTS OF THE PERIOD WHO WERE RECOGNISED AND ENCOURAGED BY ALFRED STIEGLITZ AND HE WAS PRESENTED DURING THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS BY SUCH GALLERIES AS [[margin]]STEPHEN[[/margin]] BOURGEOIS (1917), [[margin]]J.B.[[/margin]] NEUMANN (1924) AND MARIE HARRIMAN (1935).


IT WAS, HOWEVER, [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] NOT UNTIL 1946 WHEN THE WHITNEY MUSEUM HELD ITS PIONEERS OF MODERN ART IN AMERICA SHOW, AND INCLUDED A GROUP OF OSCAR BLUEMNER'S CANVASES THAT HIS POSITION WAS RECOGNISED AS ONE OF THAT LIMITED NUMBER OF ARTISTS WHOSE ACTIVITY IN THE MODERN MOVEMENT REPRESENTED AND INFLUENCED THE FORMATIVE YEARS OF MODERNISM IN THIS COUNTRY.

HIS DEATH IN 1938 WAS FOLLOWED ONE YEAR LATER BY A LARGE, RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY GALLERY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA. THE PRRESENT SHOW, HOWVER, WILL BE THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE SHOWING OF OSCAR BLUEMNER'S WORK IN NEW YORK CITY SINCE 1935.

**AMONG THE COLLECTIONS WHICH INCLUDE EXAMPLES OF BLUEMNER"S WORK ARE THE WITNEY MUSEUM (3 CANVASES), THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, THE PENSYLAVANIA MUSEUM OOF [[OF]] ART AND, PRIVATELY, DUNCAN PHILLIPS, ADOLPH LEWISOHM, STEFAN BOURGEOIS, ET AL.