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City Street
As a mature artist, Maril was an abstract painter, but his visions were thoroughly grounded on visual experience. A contemplative artist, balancing intuition with intellect, he recreated on canvas what he had seen, eliminating all but his subject's barest essentials.
Although this drawing anticipates the artist's mature style in its simplification of forms, it is an early work and one that expresses his interest in cubism.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Mr. David Maril, Baltimore, 1986, by inheritance [from his father, the artist]; Herman Maril Foundation, Inc., 2008, by transfer; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.
Exhibitions
| 2009 | Herman Maril: An American Modernist. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
Geographies
USA, Maryland, Baltimore (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Framed: H: 16 5/16 × W: 14 1/2 × D: 1 in. (41.4 × 36.8 × 2.5 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Maril Family in memory of John Dorsey, 2009
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
2009.25.15