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Periods and Styles: Mid-Century Abstraction

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Artist(s): Hans Hofmann (Weissenburg, Bavaria, Germany, Mar 21, 1880 - Feb 17, 1966, New York, NY)
Title: Black Demon
Date: 1944
Dimensions: 31 in. x 48 1/2 in. (78.74 cm x 123.19 cm)
Medium: oil on panel
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, museum purchase, 1947.11

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
Themes: MLC Portfolio: Visualizing Poetry

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Terms of Criticism, Addison Gallery of American Art, 00/00/00 - 5/10/1965
New Accessions U.S.A., Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 7/12/1948 - 9/5/1948
Contemporary Paintings from the Addison Gallery, Andover, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 11/8/1950 - 11/19/1950
Myths and Magic, The Children's Museum of the Denver Art Museum, 2/15/1951 - 5/15/1951
American Painting, 1900-1950, University of Miami Art Gallery, 2/25/1952 - 3/14/1952
Seventy-Five Years of American Painting (Festival of American Arts), Brooks Memorial Union, Marquette University, 4/22/1956 - 5/3/1956
Scope in Collecting [25th Anniversary Exhibition], Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/19/1956 - 12/24/1956
French, American and Italian Review, Oklahoma Art Center, 4/21/1963 - 5/12/1963
Terms of Criticism, Addison Gallery of American Art, 7/26/1963 - 12/23/1963
The Coming of Color, Flint Institute of Arts, 4/2/1964 - 4/30/1964
Selections from the Addison Gallery of American Art, William Crapo Gallery, 10/27/1965 - 11/23/1965
Terms of Criticism, Addison Gallery of American Art, 7/15/1966 - 10/3/1966
Terms of Criticism, Addison Gallery of American Art, 7/18/1969 - 10/19/1969
Flying Tigers: Painting and Sculpture in New York, 1939-1946, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, 4/26/1985 - 7/28/1985
Jung and Abstract Expressionism: The Collective Image Among Individual Voices, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, 11/2/1986 - 12/14/1986
American Abstraction at the Addison, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/18/1991 - 7/31/1991
[Permanent Collection 201-5], Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/12/2014 - 7/31/2014
In Tandem: Inspirations and Collaborations, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/12/2015 - 1/3/2016

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