Catalogue of Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture: The Room of Contemporary Art Collection

Publisher:

The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery
Buffalo, New York
Editor:

Ritchie, Andrew C.
Type:

Collection catalogue
Year:

1949

This collection catalogue celebrates the museum’s rededication to collecting the art of our times through the Room of Contemporary Art Initiative, initiated in 1939. The catalogue begins with a forward that addresses the process and philosophy by which works of contemporary art entered the museum’s collection, and an introduction to the various movements that had shaped contemporary art from around the turn of the century to 1949. It also features a series of full-page reproductions of and short introductory essays on the most significant works of contemporary art that had been acquired by the museum to date.

Senegalese Woman, 1921

Jacob Epstein

Walt Whitman, 1926

Alfeo Faggi

La Toilette, 1906

Pablo Picasso

Sailor with Guitar, 1914 (cast probably executed 1915)

Jacques Lipchitz

La Jeune bonne (The Servant Girl), ca. 1918

Amedeo Modigliani

La Musique, 1939

Henri Matisse

Two women look out toward the viewer from this brightly colored painting. The artist depicted these women using simple, flat shapes with dark outlines. The woman in a caramel colored dress at left sits on a floor cushion next to sheet music. The woman at right wears a marine blue jumpsuit with yellow triangles at the bottom of the legs. She has one foot on the floor and one on the couch on which she sits while playing guitar. A red tile floor contrasts with a black wall decorated with large green leaves.

La Fumée (Smoke), 1912

Fernand Léger

La Vie paysanne (Peasant Life), 1925

Marc Chagall

London, Large Thames View I, 1926

Oskar Kokoschka

Self-Portrait, 1941

Horace Pippin

New York Waterfront, 1938

Stuart Davis

Abstract shapes filled with solid areas of red, blue, white, and black paint float in a loosely linked cluster in the middle of this small beige canvas. Many of the shapes loosely resemble buildings, including a red structure with blue windows and tall black smokestacks at center, which sits beneath a white rectangle featuring the letters L and R in blue. A white shape with red edges at bottom resembles at boat while a patch of blue at bottom left may suggest water.

Fragment 2 for Composition VII, 1913

Vassily Kandinsky

Le Canigou, 1921

Juan Gris

The Anguish of Departure, 1913-1914

Giorgio de Chirico

Flowers in a Vase, 1909

Henri Rousseau

Glass, Grapes and Pear, 1929

Georges Braque

Page Boy at Maxim's, ca. 1927

Chaïm Soutine

In this tall, narrow portrait, painted with loose, energetic brush strokes, a young man wearing a deep red uniform with matching cap stands in front of a dark burgundy, gray, green, and blue background. A row of gold buttons extends down the front of the boy’s jacket. His right hand is by his side, palm facing out, and his left hand is clenched in front of his waist. The figure’s dark eyes, hair, and moustache stand out again his pale skin.

Carcass of Beef, ca. 1925

Chaïm Soutine

Margaret Boni Playing the Recorder, 1940

Julian Edwin Levi

No image available,
but we’re working on it

Country Wedding, 1942

Doris Lee

Saturday Afternoon, 1942

Zoltan L. Sepeshy

The Studio, 1940

Franklin Chenault Watkins

Composition No. 11, 1940-42--LONDON, with Blue, Red and Yellow, 1940-1942

Piet Mondrian

Dunes with Ray of Light, II, 1944

Lyonel Feininger

Dans la forêt (In the Forest), 1944

André Masson

Swimming Off West Washington Market, 1940

Reginald Marsh

Black Waves, 1944

Morris Graves

Standing Figure, 1935

Jean Hélion

Divisibilité indéfinie (Indefinite Divisibility), 1942

Yves Tanguy

Two biomorphic forms sit side by side in the foreground of this abstract, dream-like landscape. The smaller form on the left includes a gray square with red sticks emerging from its left side. Narrow gray stalks support the blue and pink shapes that make up the taller form on the right, which casts a long shadow toward the top left corner of the painting. Nine small circular discs with white sides and blue surfaces appear scattered throughout the scene.

Nu couché I (Aurore) [Reclining Nude I (Aurora)], 1907 (cast executed ca. 1912)

Henri Matisse

Thorn Trees, 1945

Graham Vivian Sutherland

Bird Bath, 1944

Abraham Rattner

Red Man-White Man-Black Man, 1945

Mark Tobey

Floating Figure, 1922

William Zorach

Office Building, 1946

Virginia Cuthbert

Spring, 1947

Ben Shahn

Flower for 1945, 1945

John Tunnard

Hairdressing, No. 3, 1948

Geoffrey Arthur Tibble

Landscape of the Megaliths, 1937

Paul Nash

Still Life, 1945

Ben Nicholson

Still Life, 1948

Robert MacBryde

Tree Landscape, not dated

Ivon Hitchens

Flowers From Claire Spencer's Garden, 1939-1940

Marsden Hartley

Tulips and Buttercups, 1928

André Bauchant

Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi (A Glimpse of Notre Dame in the Late Afternoon), 1902

Henri Matisse

Innocentia, 1908

Ivan Meštrović

Torso of a Girl, 1944

Ahron Ben-Shmuel

Souvenir d'Apollon Musagète, 1939

André Bauchant

Villa Rotunda, 1942

John Atherton

Portrait of the Poet René Crevel, 1925

Christian Bérard

The Grey Barn, ca. 1940

Harold Baumbach

No image available,
but we’re working on it

Lancaster, 1921

Charles Demuth

Bucolic Landscape, 1945

Milton Avery

A bright yellow cow, seen from the rear, sits in a grassy field on the left side of this horizontally oriented canvas. On the right, a reddish path leads into a dense woodland, and above the cow on the left, a narrow rectangle of pink sky emerges behind rolling green hills. Short red flowers are visible in the foreground, and a single, scraggly tree juts out of the ground in the upper-left corner. The colors are soft and bright, suggesting a warm, sunny day.

Concertino, 1948

Afro

Trajan and the Children, ca. 1944

Walter Stuempfig

Women of Tehuantepec, 1939

Rufino Tamayo

Two solemn-looking women, one carrying a basket of fruit on her head, stand in center of this colorful, horizontally oriented canvas. Behind them and to the left are three large containers filled with tropical fruit, some of which is also scattered on the ground. Behind them and to the right are two more women walking toward a long, low building in the background. A young boy in the right corner extends with his left hand a bunch of flowers toward the two central women.

The Brook, 1943

Milton Avery

Mademoiselle Pogany II, 1920

Constantin Brancusi

Ascending Woman, 1926

Georg Kolbe

Miss Antoinette Schulte, 1934

Charles Despiau

Die Knieende (Kneeling Woman), 1911

Wilhelm Lehmbruck

La Nuit (Night), 1902-1909 (cast executed 1939)

Aristide Maillol

The Jewess, 1934-1935

Anna Glenny Dunbar

Monsieur X, 1911

Georges Rouault

Juniata River, ca. 1932

John Kane

Reclining Figure, 1935-1936

Henry Moore

This wooden sculpture could abstractly resemble a reclining female body. The dark brown wood is polished to reveal the wood grain and knots throughout the form. The figure’s legs seem to be gently bent, and she appears to be resting on her elbows, with her head propped upright. The artist left the torso as an empty space, allowing viewers to see through the sculpture.

Market Cross, Treboul, 1930

Christopher Wood

Hommage à Mozart, ca. 1915

Raoul Dufy

Along the Boulevard, ca. 1894

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

I Think So, 1938

Yasuo Kuniyoshi

This portrait features a Caucasian woman, nude to the waist, with shoulder-length brown hair and dark painted lips seen in three quarter view sitting on a chair. Her right arm rests on the top of the chair and is bent to bring her cigarette close to her head. A green-covered magazine is spread face-down across her lap. The pale figure is set in contrast with solid a rich salmon colored background.

Wehgeweihtes Kind (Child Consecrated to Suffering), 1935

Paul Klee

Landscape with Figures, 1930

Georges Rouault

Carnaval d'Arlequin (Carnival of Harlequin), 1924-1925

Joan Miró

This painting features a beige-color room full of fantastical creatures performing music and acrobatics, and floating through the air. These colorful beings are shaped like musical instruments, insects, animals, and mermaids and interact with instruments, musical notes, a ladder, dice, unicycle, a shooting star, and other objects. A window at top right looks out onto a landscape, and beneath it is a table with a fish, a globe, and papers.

Paysage aux environs de Castel Gandolfo, 1921

André Derain

Still Life on a Mantelpiece, ca. 1923

Georges Braque

Famille au souper (Family at Supper), 1903

Pablo Picasso

Fairy Animal, 1913

Franz Marc

Souvenir d'Amérique (Souvenir of America), 1943

Kurt Seligmann

Shelocta, Pa., 1943

Philip Clarkson Elliott

Maisons à l'Île d'Ouessant, Bretagne (Houses on the Island of Ouessant, Brittany), 1912

Maurice Utrillo

Two small roughly defined figures stand in an opening framed by a low wall and several stark houses. The houses, wall, ground, and sky are painted in a limited range of grayish creams and browns. Muted pops of color come in the form of pinkish roofs on several of the homes and green shutters on the home closest to the foreground, which is shown in three-quarter view and fills much of the left side of the painting.

Susannah, ca. 1923 (cast executed ca. 1924)

Frank Dobson

Yvonne, 1908

Raymond Duchamp-Villon

Katharine Cornell, 1930

Anna Glenny Dunbar

Destiny, 1934

William Ehrich

St. Francis, 1915 (cast executed 1921)

Alfeo Faggi

Portrait of the Artist's Wife, 1929

Ernesto De Fiori

This realistic, but minimally detailed sculptural head of a woman is nearly life-sized and sits on a black, square base. Her short neck ending in a slight curve to indicate the shoulder line. Textured plaster and a palette of ivory, peach, ochre, and dark amber enrich feminine features, such as rounded lips and almond-shaped eyes accentuated by dark contours and pale pupils. Slicked-back, bobbed auburn hair and flushed, freckled cheeks, suggest that she is a modern woman of her time.

Improvisation, 1944

Peter Grippe

Standing Woman, 1912-1918 (cast executed 1927)

Gaston Lachaise

Femme agenouillée (Kneeling Woman), 1931

Henri Laurens

Boto, ca. 1942

Maria Martins

Portrait of Anna Marie Merkel, 1929

Isamu Noguchi

Woman's Head, 1909

Pablo Picasso

Bathers by a Grey Sea, 1947

John Keith Vaughan

Place du Tertre, ca. 1912

Maurice Utrillo

Harlequin (Project for a Monument), 1935

Pablo Picasso

Windy May Morning, May 27, 1917

Charles Ephraim Burchfield

Winter, East Liverpool, 1927

Charles Ephraim Burchfield

Self Portrait with Fedora Hat, ca. 1922

Vincent Canadé

L'Acrobate (Acrobat), 1914

Marc Chagall

The Flying Fish, 1948

Marc Chagall

Femme et meule, ca. 1930

Marc Chagall

White Barn, 1936

Ralston Crawford

Phil Painting "Shelocta, PA", 1943

Virginia Cuthbert

Monday in Greece, 1938

Nassos Daphnis

Head of a Girl, ca. 1919-1920

André Derain

Still Life, ca. 1924

Preston Dickinson

Race at Deauville, probably 1929

Raoul Dufy

Quimper, Brittany, 1941

Lyonel Feininger

No image available,
but we’re working on it

Nature Morte aux Trois Anses (Still Life with Three Handles), ca. 1912

Roger de La Fresnaye

The Plaza, 1941

Esther Becker Goetz

Woman in the Dunes, 1940

George Grosz

Horses Actors, 1940

María Izquierdo

Indian Summer, 1941

Gina Knee

Going to Work, 1943

Jacob Lawrence

Horse and Tiger, 1932-1933

Lawrence H. Lebduska

Landscape Near Assington, not dated

John Northcote Nash

Landscape in North Germany, ca. 1915-1925

Emil Nolde

Nude Woman, ca. 1926

Jules Pascin

The Beach, ca. 1913-1918

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

Mason, 1935

Diego Rivera

Tangerines, ca. 1937-1939

Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith

Rebecca, 1940

Isaac Soyer

New England Houses, 1924

Niles Spencer

Bali Boy, 1913

Maurice Sterne

The Blue Room, 1940

Raúl Uribe

Woman and Child, 1942

Paul Wieghardt

Gloucester Alley, 1943

Karl Zerbe

Vainglory, 1944

Carol Blanchard

No image available,
but we’re working on it

Winter, 1928

Emile Pierre Branchard

Bust of My Mother, ca. 1931 (cast executed 1941)

Remo Bufano

This mostly smooth surface of this bronze sculpture features the simplified facial features and shoulders of an old woman. She appears to be wrapped in a fabric garment so that only her face, the top of her head, and a portion of her right hand are visible. Beneath a lined forehead, her eyes are half open and her lips are set in a deep, weary frown.

Young Peasant Girl, 1909 (cast executed 1929)

Charles Despiau

Head of an Engine House Foreman, 1938

Louis Frank Dlugosz

No image available,
but we’re working on it

Mid-June, June 10, 1917-1944

Charles Ephraim Burchfield

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