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Flag Station, Elizabeth, New Jersey
1925 · Watercolor on paper
10 5/8 x 13 3/8 in. (27 x 34 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Oscar Bluemner
1867
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Art of the Twenties
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979–1980
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Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
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In the Twenties
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1975
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Drawn in America
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1972
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960–1961
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Oscar Bluemner was a Prussian-born American painter whose early architectural training informed a modernist approach to landscape and urban subjects rendered in bold, expressionistic color. Born Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner in Prenzlau, he emigrated to the United States in the early 1900s, developing a distinctive palette of acidic yellows, deep purples, and saturated oranges applied in geometric planes. His work has been acquired by MoMA, where it has featured in multiple exhibitions spanning the 1970s and 1980s. Bluemner's paintings oscillate between architectural geometry and emotional intensity, treating the American industrial landscape as a vehicle for psychological rather than documentary expression.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 26d ago
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
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