In Blazing Yellow (In Strahlendem Geld)

Ernst Wilhelm Nay, German, 1902 - 1968

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1959

Oil on canvas

Overall: 39 1/2 × 32 in. (100.4 × 81.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Wallace K. Harrison, Class of 1950H

P.967.21

Geography

Place Made: Germany, Europe

Period

20th century

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Painting

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, lower right: NAy 59; signed, dated, and inscribed on reverse: Nay -- "in Strahlemdem Geld" --1959--; signed, on reverse: Nay. Label from Kleeman Galleries, NY, #55: "In Blazing Yellow". In ink on stretcher: CA5934

Exhibition History

Contemporary art from the College Collection, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 24-March 2, 1975.

Thank You, Wallace K. Harrison, Jaffe-Friede Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 16-April 28, 1985.

Publication History

Jacquelyn Bass, Thank You, Wallace K. Harrison, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1985, p.65, no.39.

Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.212, no.283.

Provenance

Collected by Ellen Hunt Milton Harrison (1903-1995) and Wallace K. Harrison (1895-198); given to present collection, 1967.

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