Hans Hofmann
Summer Night’s Bliss
1960
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Hans Hofmann
Summer Night’s Bliss
1960
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 84 x 78 in. (213.4 x 198.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Artist
Object Number
1961.47
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1961; from the Artist
Dore Ashton, 'Summer Night's Bliss, A New Painting by Hans Hofmann,' "Baltimore Museum of Art News Quarterly," 25:3, Spring 1962, pp. 4-8, ill. cover (color) and p. 5.
Harold Rosenberg, 'Hans Hofmann and the Stability of the New,' "The New Yorker," November 2, 1963, p. 100.
Sam Hunter, "Hans Hofmann," NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1964, pl. 166.
"Art in America," March-April 1972, p. 119.
Vappa Taidekoulu, "Hans Hofmann," Helsinki: Fria Konstskolan (Free Art School), 1983, p. 48.
Goodman, Cynthia. Hans Hofmann. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with Prestel-Verlag, 1990, page 141.
Kay Larson, 'All Hans on Deck,' "New York," July 23, 1990, p. 49.
DeSimone, Jamie, "Confronting the Canvas, Women of Abstraction," New York: Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 2016, pp.8, fig. 2, ill
Rosenthal, Gertrude, ed. From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1968, pp. 133, ill.
Inscribed: VERSO: "Cat.1294 / Summer Night's Bliss/ oil on canvas/ 1961/84x78/Hans Hofmann" RECTO: lower right, "Hans Hofmann 61"
