Brooklyn Museum: American Art: Russian Ballet

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Russian Ballet

In 1912 Max Weber wrote of his creative process: "We shall not be bound by visible objects—only the essence we as humans get out of them. . . . Memories are visible things." Weber saw a performance of the famous Russian Ballet in New York in 1914 and shortly afterward executed a watercolor recording his impressions of the dancers. Two years later he painted this oil, which shows the crystallization of this memory in even greater abstraction.

Artist: Max Weber, American, 1881-1961
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dates: 1916
Dimensions: 30 x 36 in. (76.2 x 91.4 cm)
Signature: Signed lower right: "Max Weber 1916"
Collections: American Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in American Identities: A New Look, Modern Life, 5th Floor
Accession Number: 1992.11.29
Credit Line: Bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal
Image: Overall, 1992.11.29_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

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