Sunflowers, 1939

  • Karl Knaths, American, 1891-1971

Paint on canvas

  • Overall: 32 × 36 inches (81.3 × 91.4 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

39.670

1939-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Karl Knaths. Exh. cat., Phillips Gallery. Washington, D.C., 1957, p. 58 (ill.). The New Tradition, Modern Americans Before 1940. Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1963, no. 54. NY, Ornament and Glory, Theme and Theory in the Work of Karl Knaths. Exh. cat., Edith C. Blum Art Institute. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 1982, no. 18. Embick, L. “The Expressionist Current in New York’s Avant-Garde, 1935-1940: The Paintings of ‘The Ten.” Rutgers Art Review, V (Spring 1984): p. 66 (ill.).

Karl Knaths, Sunflowers, 1939, paint on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 39.670.