About the Artwork
Sea Babies
1914
Max Bohm
1868-1923
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 49 × 49 inches (124.5 × 124.5 cm) Framed: 56 3/4 × 56 7/8 × 2 5/8 inches (144.1 × 144.5 × 6.7 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
26.4
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Markings
Signed and dated, lower left: Max Bohm, 1914
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Provenance
1926-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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E.A.T. “American Artists in Paris.” International Studio 44 (August 1911): pp. 105-106 (ill.).
McCauley, Lena M. “An Exhibition of American Art.” Art and Progress 3, 3 (January 1912): p. 457.
Merrick, Lula. “Max Bohm, American Master.” International Studio 79, 324 (May 1924): pp. 129-134 (ill.).
Twelfth Annual Exhibition of American Art. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1926, no. 17.
Burroughs, Clyde. “A Painting by Max Bohm.” Bulletin of the DIA 7 (March 1926): pp. 65-66 (ill.).
Fichera, Susanna J. Max Bohm, 1868-1923: Romantic American Visionary. Exh. cat., The Cape Museum of Fine Arts. Dennis, MA, 1994, p. 6.
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Max Bohm, Sea Babies, 1914, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., 26.4.
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