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Assisted by Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti
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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Year: 1920
1920.07
New York Street Scene
Alternate title: Arrival in New York
c.1920
Oil and collage on academy board
18 x 23 15/16 in. (45.7 x 60.8 cm)
Neither signed nor dated
Provenance
Katherine Dreier, New York
Yale University Art Gallery
Exhibitions
1971–72 The University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin, The University Art Museum, Texas, Joaquín Torres-García, December 1, 1971–January 16, 1972, no. 5.
2006 Hammer Museum
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, April 23–August 20, 2006, ill., p. 184. Traveled to: The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., October 14, 2006–January 16, 2007; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, June 20–September 16, 2007; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, October 27, 2007–February 3, 2008; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, December 4, 2012–June 23, 2013.
2009–10 El Museo del Barrio
El Museo del Barrio, New York, Nexus New York: Latin/American Artist in the Modern Metropolis, October 17, 2009–February 28, 2010. (El Museo del Barrio 2010), ill., p. 118, as New York Street Scene.
2015–2016 Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016, ill., p. 38. Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.
Published References
Dreier and Duchamp 1950
Dreier, Katherine S. and Marcel Duchamp. Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920. Edited by George Heard Hamilton. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950, p. 56, as Arrival in New York.
Duncan 1970
Ducan, Barbara. "Joaquín Torres García." Americas Vol. 22, No. 11-12 (November-December 1970), ill. p. 13.
Herbert 1984
Herbert, Robert. The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University, A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1984, p. 662, ill. p. 661, no. 687.
Onieva 2009
Onieva, Sonia. Artistes catalans al món. Barcelona: Edicions 62, 2009, ill. p. 53.
Cotter 2010a
Cotter, Holland. "Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis." The New York Times, January 15, 2010, ill. C15.
Sullivan 2018
Sullivan, Edward J. Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art 1910-1960. London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2018, fig. 2.10, ill. p. 75, as New York Street Scene.
Ferrari 2022a
Ferrari, Francesca. "Eroding 'Material Perfection:' Layered Surfaces and Composite Constructions in Joaquín Torres-García's New York Work, 1920-22." Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 2020–2021: The Société Anonyme at 100. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 2022, Fig. 1, ill. p. 19 and ill. on back cover, as New York Street Scene.
Record last updated April 19, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: de Torres, Cecilia, Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti. "New York Street Scene, c.1920 (1920.07)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=382 (accessed on March 29, 2024).