Variation: Snow
c.1916
Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
Not on View

Jawlensky's Variations are colored, almost abstract meditations upon a few unchanging forms distilled from tree shapes. They clearly foreshadow the icon-like quality of his later work, with its eternal repetition of meditative signs. In a letter he wrote to Galka Scheyer in 1919, Jawlensky said, "Klee did not approve of. . .my pictures. . . .he said they are too intellectual, too thought out. I think all of that is wrong."

Details

  • Artist Name: Alexei Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
  • Title: Variation: Snow
  • Date: c.1916
  • Medium: Oil and pencil on textured wove paper
  • Dimensions: 14-1/8 x 10-5/8 in. (36.0 x 27.0 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.091
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

The artist;
Galka Scheyer, 1924, sent August, 1931 to;
Marjorie Eaton, returned to Scheyer December, 1931;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.

Color and Form 1904 - 1914

  • San Diego, Fine Arts Gallery, 1971-11-20 to 1972-01-02
  • Oakland Museum, 1972-01-25 to 1972-03-05
  • Seattle Art Museum, 1972-03-24 to 1972-05-07

Serial Imagery

  • Pasadena Art Museum, 1968-09-17 to 1968-10-27
  • Henry Art Gallery, 1968-11-17 to 1968-12-22
  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1969-01-25 to 1969-02-23

Alexei Jawlensky: A Centennial Exhibition

  • Pasadena Art Museum, 1964-04-14 to 1964-05-19
  • Rose Art Museum, 1964-11-09 to 1964-12-13
  • Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1965-01-04 to 1965-02-07
  • University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, 1965-03-01 to 1965-03-31
  • University of New Mexico, Art Museum, 1965-10-17 to 1965-11-23
  • Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, 1965-12-07 to 1966-01-16

Alexei Jawlensky

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1987-08-06 to 1987-12-13

Homage to Jawlensky

  • New York, Nierendorf Gallery, 1939-11-15 to

My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14

Jawlensky and the Serial Image

  • Irvine, University of California, University Art Gallery, 1966-03-11 to 1966-03-31
  • Riverside, University of California, Art Gallery, 1966-04-04 to 1966-04-30

Selections from the Galka E. Scheyer Collection

  • Pasadena Art Museum, 1970-09-08 to 1970-12-17

Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941)

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2007-05-04 to 2007-11-05

Selections from the Permanent Collection

  • Pasadena Art Museum, 1971-07-13 to 1971-09-19

The Galka Scheyer Collection: Klee, Nolde, Jawlensky, Moholy-Nagy, Schmidt-Rottluff, Schwitters, Archipenko, Kandinsky, Lissitzky, Feininger, Kirchner, Dix_1

  • La Jolla, Art Center in La Jolla, 1960-07-05 to 1960-08-14

The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum

  • Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05

Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee. The Blue Four Galka E. Scheyer Collection

  • Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, 1955-05-27 to 1955-08-30

Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973

  • Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31

Visions and Icons: the Art of Alexei Jawlensky

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1990-01-18 to 1991-04-14

The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 130 p. 50
  • Jawlensky, Maria, Lucia Pieroni-Jawlensky, and Angelica Jawlensky, Alexej von Jawlensky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, 1914-1933, 1992, no. 798
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 147 p. 131

Additional Artwork by Artist

Abstract Head: Small Head on Wood Alexei Jawlensky 1921
Head Alexei Jawlensky 1912
Head Inclined to the Right, with Closed Eyes Alexei Jawlensky c. 1922

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