Autumn

Gallery 218, American Art, second floor (Provident National Bank Gallery)

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Autumn

c. 1931

Hugh Henry Breckenridge (American, 1870–1937)

The intense tones and rapid, spontaneous brushwork in Autumn demonstrate Hugh Henry Breckenridge’s firm commitment to the aesthetic principles of Modernism. The painting dates to the early 1930s, when the artist shifted his style from a subdued Impressionism to a more aggressive abstraction of form and color. Breckenridge taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia for forty-three years. His pupils included Arthur B. Carles, Charles Demuth, and Henry Lyman Saÿen.

Gallery 218, American Art, second floor (Provident National Bank Gallery)

Object Details

Title:

Autumn

Date:

c. 1931

Artist:

Hugh Henry Breckenridge (American, 1870–1937)

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

43 1/16 × 37 1/16 inches (109.4 × 94.1 cm) Framed: 44 3/8 × 38 × 2 1/2 inches (112.7 × 96.5 × 6.4 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

Gift of Mrs. Hugh H. Breckenridge, 1936

Accession Number:

1936-35-1

Geography:

Made in United States, North and Central America

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Gallery 218, American Art, second floor (Provident National Bank Gallery)

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