In the Beginning—for a Cycle of the Creation

Artist Albert Bloch (American, 1882 - 1961)

Date1922

MediumInk on paper

DimensionsImage: 11 1/4 × 8 3/4 inches (28.58 × 22.23 cm)
Sheet: 14 3/8 × 11 3/8 inches (36.51 × 28.89 cm)
Mat: 19 × 13 15/16 inches (48.26 × 35.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Albert Bloch Foundation in honor of the 75th anniversary of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Object number2019.60

SignedIn ink at lower right of image area, "AB" monogram; "1922" below and to the right

InscribedIn ink in the lower left margin, "In the Beginning\For a Cycle of the Creation"

On View

Not on view

Collections

American Art

Terms

DescriptionLine drawing in black ink of dove hovering over a group of fetus like forms and other less distinct shapes packed together. Small parallel lines emanate out from within the group of forms. A black sun-like body is positioned at the right side of the composition. The dove is drawn with a burst of light surrounding it and black lines extending outward from it. The drawing is vertically oriented.
Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Edgar Miller Gallery, Chicago, 1925 (?).

Albert Bloch, Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, March 22–May 24, 1992, no cat.

Albert Bloch: The American Blue Rider, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., January 26–March 16, 1997; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, April 16–June 29, 1997; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, October 3–December 7, 1997, no. 74.

Run Wild: American Imagination on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., November 7, 2012–May 12, 2013, no cat.

Provenance

The artist (1881–1961), Lawrence, KS, 1909–March 23,1961;

Inherited by his wife, Anna Bloch (1913–2014), Lawrence, KS, March 23, 1961–June 11, 2001;

To the Albert Bloch Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2001;

Its gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 31, 2019.

Published References

Henry Adams, Margaret C. Conrads, and Annegret Hoberg, Albert Bloch: The American Blue Rider, exh. cat. (Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1997), 213, pl. 71.

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