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Artist Max Weber (American, born Russia, 1881 - 1961)
Date1941
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 23 1/4 × 28 1/4 inches (59.06 × 71.76 cm)
Framed: 29 5/8 × 34 9/16 inches (75.25 × 87.79 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Atha through the Friends of Art
Object number45-19
SignedSigned lower right: max weber
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionFour men, one seated on floor against a red stool, read large newspapers.Published References
Doris Brian, “E Pluribus Weber,” Art News 40 (15–28 February
1941), 38; Forbes Watson, “Max Weber—1941,” American Magazine of Art 34 (February 1941), 78 (as The Latest); Max Weber,
exh. cat. (New York: Associated American Artists’ Galleries, 1941),
unpaginated; Jeanette Jena, “Max Weber Paintings on Display at
Institute: Exhibition by Noted Artist Found Exciting, Representative of Contemporary World,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12 March
1943, 22; John O’Connor Jr., “Max Weber: Exhibition of His Paintings at the Carnegie Institute from March 9 to April 18,” Carnegie
Magazine 16 (March 1943), 304; Exhibition of Paintings by Max
Weber, exh. cat. (Pittsburgh: Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie
Institute, 1943), unpaginated; The Fourth Biennial Exhibition of
Contemporary American Paintings, exh. cat. (Richmond: Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, 1944), 31; “Recent Gifts to the Contemporary American Painting Collection,” Gallery News (William Rock-
hill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts)
12 (December 1945), 5; Max Weber, Max Weber (New York:
American Artists Group, 1945), unpaginated; “Modern Painters
Are Aided by the Friends of Art,” Kansas City Star, 12 April 1947,
9D; An American Show: Louis Bouché, Edward Hopper, Walt
Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, John Marin, Max Weber, exh. cat. (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1948), unpaginated; NAMA 1949,
205; Winifred Shields, “A Special Collection of Works Is Growing
at Nelson Gallery,” Kansas City Star, 19 May 1950, 28; “Renaissance in the Midwest,” Time, 18 October 1955, 77; Communicating Art from Midwestern Collections: American and European
Paintings and Sculpture, 1835–1955, exh. cat. (Des Moines, Iowa:
Des Moines Art Center, 1955), unpaginated; Bob Sanford, “A Panoramic Look at American Art,” Kansas City Times, 6 November
1957, 32; The American Vision: Paintings of Three Centuries; A
Loan Exhibition Sponsored by Time, the Weekly Newsmagazine
for the Benefi t of the American Federation of Arts, exh. cat. (New
York: Wildenstein and Company, 1957), unpaginated; Alexander
Eliot, Three Hundred Years of American Painting (New York:
Time, 1957), 182–83; NAMA 1959, 258; The Newspaper in American Art, exh. cat. (San Diego: San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, 1965),
unpaginated; The Newspaper in American Art, exh. cat. (Peoria,
Ill.: Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, 1966), unpaginated;
NAMA 1973, 255; The Growing Spectrum of American Art, exh.
cat. (Omaha, Neb.: Joslyn Art Museum, 1975), 37, 73; Alfred Werner, Max Weber (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1975), unpaginated,
pl. 118; Jo Ann Lewis, “The Immigrants’ Vision and 20th-Century
Painting,” Dialogue, no. 57 (3 /1982), 12; Percy North, Max Weber:
American Modern, exh. cat. (New York: Jewish Museum, 1982), 78;
Benjamin Harshav and Barbara Harshav, American Yiddish Poetry:
A Bilingual Anthology (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of
California Press, 1986), 319, 812; Eli Barnavi, ed., A Historical
Atlas of the Jewish People, from the Time of the Patriarchs to the
Present (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), 218; American Realism
between the Wars: 1919 to 1941, exh. cat. (Roslyn Harbor, N.Y.:
Nassau County Museum of Art, 1994), 32, 64; Garry Apgar, Shaun
O’L. Higgins, and Colleen Striegel, The Newspaper in Art (Spokane, Wash.: New Media Ventures, 1996), 73, 136, 210; Ernest
Levy, Just One More Dance: A Story of Degradation and Fear,
Faith and Compassion, from a Survivor of the Nazi Death Camps
(Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 1999), cover.
Copyright© Estate of Max Weber
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