Sea Babies, 1914

  • Max Bohm, American, 1868-1923

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 49 × 49 inches (124.5 × 124.5 cm)
  • 56 3/4 × 56 7/8 × 2 5/8 inches (144.1 × 144.5 × 6.7 cm)

Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.

26.4

Signed and dated, lower left: Max Bohm, 1914

1926-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

E.A.T. “American Artists in Paris.” International Studio 44 (August 1911): pp. 105-106 (ill.). McCauley, Lena M. “An Exhibition of American Art.” Art and Progress 3, 3 (January 1912): p. 457. Merrick, Lula. “Max Bohm, American Master.” International Studio 79, 324 (May 1924): pp. 129-134 (ill.). Twelfth Annual Exhibition of American Art. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1926, no. 17. Burroughs, Clyde. “A Painting by Max Bohm.” Bulletin of the DIA 7 (March 1926): pp. 65-66 (ill.). Fichera, Susanna J. Max Bohm, 1868-1923: Romantic American Visionary. Exh. cat., The Cape Museum of Fine Arts. Dennis, MA, 1994, p. 6.

Max Bohm, Sea Babies, 1914, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., 26.4.