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Bradley Walker Tomlin

Abstraction No. 6

1952–53

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  • Artist Bradley Walker Tomlin (American, 1899–1953)
  • Title Abstraction No. 6
  • Date 1952–53
  • Medium Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions unframed | 52 1/4 x 40 1/8 in.
  • Credit line Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., 1965
  • Object number WU 4283

From Picasso to Fontana: Collecting Modern and Postwar Art in the Eisendrath Years, 1960–1968
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/23/2015 - 04/19/2015

Abstract Expressionism: American Art in the 1950s and 1960s
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/17/1997 - 04/06/1997

The Centennial Exhibition
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/15/1981 - 10/11/1981

Bradley Walker Tomlin: A Retrospective View
Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University Museum of Art (Hempstead, New York), 04/17/1975 - 05/25/1975
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Lincoln, Nebraska), 02/15/1976 - 03/14/1976
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Museum of Art, 11/16/1975 - 12/28/1975
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, California), 04/06/1976 - 05/23/1976
Buffalo AKG Art Museum (Buffalo, New York), 09/26/1975 - 11/09/1975

Development of Modernist Painting: Jackson Pollock to the Present
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 04/01/1969 - 04/30/1969

Washington University Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture from Daumier to Pollock
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 04/06/1966 - 05/08/1966

Bradley Walker Tomlin
Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, 03/15/1958 - 04/10/1958
Pasadena Art Museum, 04/20/1958 - 05/15/1958
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, 01/22/1958 - 02/22/1958
San Diego Museum of Art, 05/25/1958 - 06/15/1958
Whitney Museum of American Art, 09/24/1957 - 11/10/1957
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 07/01/1958 - 08/02/1958
North Carolina Museum of Art, 12/01/1957 - 01/05/1958

Modern Painting, Drawing and Sculpture: Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Knoedler and Company (New York, New York), 04/09/1957 - 05/04/1957
Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums, 05/16/1957 - 09/15/1957

Bradley Tomlin and Abstract Expressionist Painting
The Phillips Collection, 03/06/1955 - 05/03/1955

Art in the 20th Century
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 06/17/1955 - 07/10/1955

23rd Biennial Exhibition
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 03/15/1953 - 05/03/1953

1965
Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.

Inscription Recto, lower right corner, in gray-green paint: '62 / b. tomlin

Label Verso, upper center on top stretcher, upside-down label with black border, printed in black and inscribed in black ink and pencil: [fragment] PARSONS GALLERY / 15 EAST 57th ST., N. Y. C. / Artist [inscribed:] BRADLEY TOMLIN / [printed:] Title [inscribed:] #6 '53 [inscribed in pencil:] -52 / [printed:] Price

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