On view
American Art
Wilmerding Pavilion
Philip & Nancy Anschutz Gallery
Wilmerding Pavilion
Philip & Nancy Anschutz Gallery
The Wine Glass,
1945
Albert Eugene Gallatin, 1881–1952; born Villanova, PA; died New York, NY; active Paris, France and New York
y1966-301
The painter, collector, and critic Albert Eugene Gallatin began his influential career as a champion of representational art. Following exposure to European abstraction, however, he began to acquire modernist art, amassing an important collection that was displayed in his Gallery of Living Art at New York University, which opened in 1927 as the first American museum devoted exclusively to modern art. Gallatin himself took up painting seriously in 1936, evolving a style informed by the artists he collected, particularly the Cubists Juan Gris (1887–1927), Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), and Fernand Léger (1881–1955). The Wine Glass, a typically austere image in the subtle and refined palette Gallatin favored, was completed in 1945, three years after he made his public debut as a painter in his renamed Museum of Living Art, along with other members of the New York–based American Abstract Artists.
Information
Title
The Wine Glass
Dates
1945
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 76.2 x 50.7 cm (30 x 19 15/16 in.)
frame: 94 x 69.2 cm (37 x 27 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. )
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. W. Floyd Nichols and Mrs. B. Langdon Tyler, nieces of Albert E. Gallatin
Object Number
y1966-301
Place Made
North America, United States, New York, New York
Marks/Labels/Seals
On Verso: A. E. Gallatin / May 1945 / Nov
Culture
Type
Subject
Mrs. W. Floyd Nichols and Mrs. B. Langdon Tyler, nieces of Albert Eugene Gallatin (1881-1952), the artist, by 1966; donated to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1966.
