Dusk

Details

CARL VON MARR (1858-1936)
Dusk
signed 'Carl/Marr' (lower right)
oil on canvas
sight, 23 ¼ in. (59.1 cm.) diameter;
overall, 24 ½ x 24 ½ in. (62.2 x 62.2 cm.)
Painted in 1908.

Provenance

Eduard Schulte, Berlin, Germany, 1912.
Henry Reinhardt, New York.
Florence Scott and Edward Drummond Libbey, Toledo, Ohio.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1912.

Literature

G.J. Wolf, "Carl von Marr," Die Kunst , vol. XXIII, December 1, 1910, p. 111, illustrated.
"Who's Who in Art," American Art Annual, vol. XX, 1923, p. 610.
Toledo Museum of Art News, no. 31, March 1918, n.p., illustrated.
S.E. Strickler, The Toledo Museum of Art: American Paintings, Toledo, Ohio, 1979, pp. 81, 169, pl. 117, illustrated.

Exhibited

Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings Acquired by the Toledo Museum 1901-1951, August-September 1951.

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Lot Essay

Carl von Marr was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1858, where he trained under artist Henry Vianden. He then traveled to Europe, settling and working in Germany, where he was appointed director of Munich's Royal Academy.

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