Oscar Bluemner

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Spiro, New York

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York (acquired from the above in 1970)

Mr. and Mrs. Brayton Wilbur, San Francisco (acquired from the above in 1978)

Vance Jordan Fine Art Inc., New York

Private Collection, Virginia (acquired from the above)

Leah and Richard Waitzer Foundation, Virginia (acquired as a gift from the above by 2019)

Acquired as a gift from the above by the present owner

Berlin, Galerie Fritz Gurlitt, Oskar Bluemner, 1912

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Oscar Bluemner: Landscapes of Sorrow and Joy, 1988-89, p. 31 (titled March Wind, Passaic River, New Jersey)

New York, Vance Jordan Fine Art Inc., Power and Whimsy: A Private Collection of American Modernism, 2003, no. 8, p. 19, illustrated in color and pp. 63-64, illustrated

Montclair Art Museum, Oscar Bluemner’s America: Picturing Paterson, 2013

Jeffrey Hayes, Oscar Bluemner, Cambridge, 1991, no. 24, pp. 40-41, illustrated (titled March Wind, Passaic River, N.J.)

The present work is one of fifteen paintings German-born American painter Oscar Bluemner exhibited at Galerie Fritz Gurlitt in Berlin in May 1912. Bluemner scholar Jeffrey Hayes writes regarding the present work and Old Canal, Red and Blue (1911-17, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden): "Despite subsequent adjustments to these and most of his other initial canvases, both paintings still bear evidence of their original compositions and Bluemner's 'principle that one must not be satisfied to imitate the form which is [in reality], but try to vary it for the more pictorial that might be there, in color and shape'" (as quoted in Jeffrey R. Hayes, Oscar Bluemner, p. 41).