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Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s

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Artist(s): Hans Hofmann (Weissenburg, Bavaria, Germany, Mar 21, 1880 - Feb 17, 1966, New York, NY)
Title: Exaltment
Date: 1947
Dimensions: 59 3/4 in. x 47 3/4 in. (151.77 cm x 121.29 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Museum purchase, 1960.6

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Periods and Styles: Mid-Century Abstraction
Exhibitions: Currents/Crosscurrents
Exhibitions: Learning to Look: The Addison at 90
Themes: MLC Portfolio: Visualizing Poetry

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Variations...Three Centuries, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/8/1954 - 2/15/1954
Survey of the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/14/1961 - 11/27/1961
Art in American History, Addison Gallery of American Art, 7/22/1962 - 10/28/1962
Roots and Promise of American Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/10/1967 - 3/13/1967
Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) Colorist in Black and White, Currier Museum of Art, 10/19/1974 - 11/11/1974
Masterworks from the Collection: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/9/1981 - 6/14/1981
Raymond Saunders: Addison Delectations, Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/19/1988 - 3/20/1988
American Abstraction at the Addison, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/18/1991 - 7/31/1991
American Abstraction from the Addison Gallery of American Art, American Federation of Arts, 2/27/1993 - 12/4/1994
Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/5/1995 - 12/17/1995
Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/13/1996 - 7/31/1996
Sculpture in Context, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/17/1999 - 7/31/1999
Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/22/2000 - 3/26/2000
Conversations: A Collection in Dialogue, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/7/2003 - 7/31/2003
Art, Artists, and the Addison: Building a Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 3/30/2004 - 7/31/2004
Eye on the Collection: Early Abstraction, Addison Gallery of American Art, 6/10/2005 - 7/31/2005
Toward Abstraction, Addison Gallery of American Art, 12/23/2005 - 3/26/2006
Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s, American Federation of Arts, 9/9/2006 - 9/7/2009
Inside, Outside, Upstairs, Downstairs: The Addison Anew, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/7/2010 - 3/27/2011
Hans Hofmann - Magnum Opus, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, 3/9/2013 - 6/16/2013
[Permanent Collection 201-5], Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/12/2014 - 7/31/2014
Searching for the Real, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/30/2015 - 7/31/2015
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/1/2017 - 7/30/2017
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2017 - 7/31/2018
Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, 2/27/2019 - 1/6/2020
Currents/Crosscurrents: American Art, 1850–1950, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/2020 - 3/7/2021
Learning to Look: The Addison at 90, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/8/2021 - 2/6/2022

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