Barrére Wind Orchestra
1928
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lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 18 × 23.7 cm (7 1/16 × 9 5/16 in.) sheet: 22.5 × 30.5 cm (8 7/8 × 12 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Accession Number
2008.115.4985
Art Historical Context
Max Weber's *Barrére Wind Orchestra*1928) is a dynamic lithograph capturing the energy of a musical ensemble led by the renowned flutist Georges Barrère, conductor of the New York Symphony's woodwind section. Printed in bold black ink on smooth wove paper, this intimate work measures just 18 × 23.7 cm, inviting close viewing to appreciate its rhythmic lines and abstracted forms. Weber, a pioneering modernist painter and printmaker who emigrated from Russia to New York in 1891, infused his art with Cubist and Synchromist influences, blending geometric fragmentation with vibrant motion. Created...
About the Artist
Max Weber
Max Weber (1881–1961), born in Białystok in the Russian Empire (now Poland) to Orthodox Jewish parents, immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, at age ten with his family, joining his tailor father.) There, he pursued art studies at the Pratt Institute under Arthur Wesley Dow, an innovative teacher who emphasized expression and form over traditional narrative, drawing from Japanese art and Paul Gauguin....