A red house and green trees are painted in simplified forms and shapes against a black background in this abstracted, vertical painting. Painted in blocks of tomato or garnet red, the house is tall and has a chimney at the center. A gray, S-shaped line suggests a tree trunk to the left, and strokes and bands of green create tree canopies and grass. A red shape in the sky over the house loosely resembles a flag rippling to our left. The artist signed the lower right corner, “BLMER” with the letters conjoined.

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Imagination

painter Oscar F. Bluemner (American, 1867 - 1938)

1932

Medium: casein and watercolor on paper, mounted to paperboard
Classification: Painting
Dimensions: overall: 79.38 × 58.9 cm (31 1/4 × 23 3/16 in.) ; framed: 95.25 × 74.3 × 6.03 cm (37 1/2 × 29 1/4 × 2 3/8 in.)
Culture: American
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line: Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Myron L. Cowen and the William A. Clark Fund, 1979)
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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