The Visit
1917
Medium
aqueous and oil media on paper mounted on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 92.08 × 76.2 cm (36 1/4 × 30 in.) framed: 110.17 × 94.93 × 5.08 cm (43 3/8 × 37 3/8 × 2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Mrs. Francis Biddle)
Accession Number
2014.136.139
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....