Norman Bluhm
Red Curtain

Red Curtain
Red Curtain
Red Curtain
ArtistAmerican, 1920–1999
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Red Curtain
Date1955
PlaceUnited States
MediumWatercolor and ink on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 18 1/8 × 14 3/4 in. (46 × 37.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2000.123
Not on view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"American Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper 1940s-1960s," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 20, 2015—February 7, 2016.

"Drawn to Color," The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Jan. 8, 2022-Jan. 29, 2023 [Third Installation/Light-Sensitive Rotation: Kinder Building 207: No Catalog]

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso in red watercolor: Norman Bluhm / 1955

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