Portrait (Cubist Portrait; Portrait of a Young Woman)
Max Weber, American (born Russia, now Poland), 1881 - 1961
1911
Oil on canvas
Overall: 18 1/8 × 15 1/4 in. (46 × 38.7 cm)
Frame: 26 × 22 1/2 in. (66 × 57.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
P.935.1.74
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, upper left: MAX WEBER ’10 [an early photograph, c. 1913, shows the date of “’11: see object file]; stamped on stretcher: ARTHUR B. DAVIES / AMERICAN ART ASS'N / APRIL 6-17, 1929. Label on reverse: MAX WEBER / "PORTRAIT"
Course History
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R. Taylor, Fall 2013
THEA 90, Contemporary Practices in U.S. Theater, Laurie Cherba Kohn, Fall 2013
WRIT 5, The Waste Land, Before and After, Melissa Zeiger, Fall 2013
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
Writing 7.2, Writers on Writing, Wendy Piper, Spring 2014
WRIT 7.2, Writers on Writing, Wendy Piper, Spring 2015
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Gard, Andrew McCann, Winter 2019
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2020
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Spring 2021
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann2, Spring 2021
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Spring 2021
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2022
SART 25.01, Painting I, Danielle Genadry, Summer 2022
Exhibition History
20th Century Masters from the Permanent Collection, Barrows Windows, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 3-March 5, 1978.
American Art Association, New York, New York, April 6-17, 1929.
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
American Paintings from the Dartmouth Collection, 1910-1960, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 17-April 12, 1998.
Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December, 1962
Cubism and its Influence, Barrows Print Room, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 17-March 30, 1975.
Cubism and Its Legacy, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 17-December 20, 2013.
Director's Choice, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 10-July 10, 1966.
Gifts of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Carpenter Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-July 11, 1976.
Max Weber Exhibit, School of Creative Arts, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, June 1957.
Max Weber Memorial Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York, January-April, 1962.
Max Weber: The Cubist Decade: 1910-1920, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, December 10, 1991-February 9, 1992; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, March 8-May 3, 1992; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., May 31-August 9, 1992; Albright-Knox Art Gellery, Buffalo, New York, September 12-October 25, 1992; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, November 13, 1992-January 10, 1993; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, February 18-April 25, 1993.
Modern Art, Carpenter Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 22-May 14, 1948.
The Dartmouth Collection: 19th & 20th Century Paintings, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 17-Novmber 6, 1982.
The Decade of Modernism: Selections from 1910-1919, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 11-July 20, 2003.
The Machine in the Garden: Cubist Art from The Hood Collection, Alumni College 1986, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 26-August 24, 1986.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 86, no. 62.
Provenance
Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928) collection; sold to Downtown Gallery, New York, date unknown; sold to Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), New York, April 19, 1929; given to present collection, 1935.
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