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Forms in a Landscape

Matta

Forms in a Landscape

1937

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Matta

Forms in a Landscape

1937

Physical Qualities Crayon and graphite, Sheet: 500 × 651 mm. (19 11/16 × 25 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Saidie A. May
Object Number 1938.819
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1938; Saidie A. May, Baltimore
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Dada and Surrealism: A Selection," 1 March - 24 April, 1977.

Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.

BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.

BMA, "BMA Collects: Surrealist Drawings," 27 February - 29 April, 1990.

Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection," 31 March - 20 June 1999.

Vancouver Art Museum, "Surrealism: The Colour of my Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art," May 28 - September 25, 2011.
"Saidie A. May Collection, Baltimore, 1977.
Greeley, Robin Adele, Samantha Kavky, Oliver Shell, and Oliver Tostmann. "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s." New York, NY: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Baltimore Museum of Art and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2018, ill.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 141, ill.

Inscribed: lower right in red crayon: "M / 37"

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Matta

Chilean, 1911-2002

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