Arthur B. Carles
Interior with Woman at Piano
1911
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Arthur B. Carles
Interior with Woman at Piano
1911
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Sight: 31 3/8 x 38 1/2 in. (79.7 x 97.8 cm) Framed: 44 x 51 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. (111.8 x 130.2 x 11.4 cm)
Credit Line
Special Purchase Fund
Object Number
1963.5
Using ideas of Synchromism, a movement that equated color with sound, Arthur B. Carles depicted the interior of his friend photographer Edward Steichen’s house with colors that seem to vibrate across the scene. Carles’ wife, Mercedes
de Cordoba, is seated at a piano while four figures listen in the background near a window.
Working in Paris by the summer of 1907, Carles adopted French Post-Impressionism’s vivid color palette. This painting was included in the
Armory Show of 1913, a major traveling exhibition that introduced American audiences to the very latest in European and American contemporary art.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "International Exhibition of Modern Art", March 24 - April 16, 1913
National Arts Club, "Exhibition of Contemporary Art", February 5 - March 7, 1914
Allan Memorial Art Museum, "One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition", January 15 - March 13, 1955. Circulated to Florence, Madrid, Stockholm.
Graham Gallery, "Arthur B. Carles, 1882 - 1952: Retrospective Exhibition", April 14 - May 9, 1959
Adelyn Breeskin, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., "Roots of Abstract Art in America, 1910-1930," December 2, 1965 - January 9, 1966
Delaware Art Museum, "Avant-Garde Painting and Sculpture in America, 1910-25", April 4 - May 18, 1975.
Centre National D'Art Et De Culture Georges Pompidou, "Paris - New York", June 1 - September 19, 1977.
Baltimore Museum of Art, "American Art 1900-1930", September 2 - October 29, 1978.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, "Arthur B. Carles, "Painting with Color", September 23 - November 27, 1983; circulated to Corcoran Gallery of Art, April 17 - June 27, 1984; National Academy of Design, September 11 - November 4, 1984.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Art of Music from the Baltimore Museum of Art," circulated to Mansion at Strathmore, North Bethesda, Maryland, January 8, 2005 - February 26, 2005; The Washington Country Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland, September 30, 2005 - November 20, 2005; The Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, December 9, 2005 - February 5, 2006; Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, February 15, 2006 - April 9, 2006
National Arts Club, "Exhibition of Contemporary Art", February 5 - March 7, 1914
Allan Memorial Art Museum, "One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition", January 15 - March 13, 1955. Circulated to Florence, Madrid, Stockholm.
Graham Gallery, "Arthur B. Carles, 1882 - 1952: Retrospective Exhibition", April 14 - May 9, 1959
Adelyn Breeskin, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., "Roots of Abstract Art in America, 1910-1930," December 2, 1965 - January 9, 1966
Delaware Art Museum, "Avant-Garde Painting and Sculpture in America, 1910-25", April 4 - May 18, 1975.
Centre National D'Art Et De Culture Georges Pompidou, "Paris - New York", June 1 - September 19, 1977.
Baltimore Museum of Art, "American Art 1900-1930", September 2 - October 29, 1978.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, "Arthur B. Carles, "Painting with Color", September 23 - November 27, 1983; circulated to Corcoran Gallery of Art, April 17 - June 27, 1984; National Academy of Design, September 11 - November 4, 1984.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Art of Music from the Baltimore Museum of Art," circulated to Mansion at Strathmore, North Bethesda, Maryland, January 8, 2005 - February 26, 2005; The Washington Country Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland, September 30, 2005 - November 20, 2005; The Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, December 9, 2005 - February 5, 2006; Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, February 15, 2006 - April 9, 2006
Barbara Ann Boese Wolanin, "The Orchestration of Color: The Paintings of Arthur B. Carles," New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2000. Cat. #27
Stavitsky, Gail, John Cauman, William C. Agee, et al. Matisse and American Art. Montclair, NJ: Montclair Art Museum, 2017, page 124.
On View at the BMA
