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Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938) Bronx River image 1
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Lot 70

Oscar Bluemner
(1867-1938)
Bronx River

26 September – 7 October 2025, 12:00 EDT
Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

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Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938)

Bronx River
signed with conjoined initials 'OB' (lower right); dated 'may 30-11' (lower right); identified on a label from Robert Schoelkopf Gallery (affixed to the reverse); inscribed in ink (on the reverse)
crayon on paper
4 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. (12.0 x 19.0 cm)
Executed in 1911.

Footnotes

Provenance
Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York.
A private collection.

N.B.
Oscar Bluemner was born Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner in Prenzlau, Germany. He studied architecture in Berlin before moving to Chicago in 1893 and then New York in 1901. He initially worked in architecture, even designing the Bronx Borough Courthouse in 1903 alongside architect Michael J. Garvin, but began shifting toward a career in painting by 1905. Bluemner spent hours studying avant-garde artists and art theory of the time. He met Alfred Stieglitz in 1908, which greatly influenced his artistic trajectory, and spent a year traveling throughout Europe absorbing the lessons of expressionism, futurism, and neoimpressionism. Upon his return to the U.S. in 1913, he presented at a number of New York exhibitions, although he continued to struggle financially. After his wife's death in 1926, he moved to South Braintree, Massachusetts, where he continued to paint, write, and draw.

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