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Often working in a common palette using expressive brushwork, they shared a belief in the symbolic and spiritual importance of forms and colors, including their effect on emotions and memories. Blaue Reiter also promoted a spontaneous, intuitive approach to painting, looking to non-Western, European medieval, and folk art for inspiration. Here the troika, a traditional carriage drawn by three horses, and the hand-painted frame, which Kandinsky made especially for this work, speak to the powerful influence these sources had on the artist.<\/p>\n","short_description":"Vasily Kandinsky was a founding member of Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider), a loose alliance of artists based in Munich. Often working in a common palette and using expressive brushwork, they shared a belief in the symbolic and spiritual importance of forms and colors, including their effect on emotions and memories. Blaue Reiter also promoted a intuitive approach to painting, looking to non-Western, European medieval, and folk art for inspiration.","dimensions":"69.7 \u00d7 97.3 cm (27 3\/8 \u00d7 38 5\/16 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":97,"height":69,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Oil on cardboard; in artist's painted frame","inscriptions":"signed, l.l.: \"Kandinsky\"","credit_line":"Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Kandinsky, 1901-1913 (Berlin: Der Sturm, 1913), p. 56 (ill.). \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of the Late Arthur Jerome Eddy, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), cat. 39. \n\n\u201cTwo Exhibitions of Modern Art,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 16, 5 (October 1922), p. 69 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, The Arthur Jerome Eddy Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), cat. 7 (ill.).  \n\nArts Club of Chicago, Wassily Kandinsky Memorial Exhibition, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 1945), cat. 50.\n\nSociety of the Four Arts, Exhibition of Russian Paintings, exh. cat. (Palm Beach, Fla.: Society of the Four Arts, 1945), cat. 47.\n\nUniversity Gallery, University of Minnesota, German Expressionism in Art, 1905-1935: Painting, Sculpture, Prints, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1950), cat. 42.\n\nLindsay, Kenneth C., \u201cThe Genesis and Meaning of the Cover Design for the First Blaue Reiter Exhibition Catalogue,\u201d Art Bulletin 35 (March 1953), p. 49.\n\nSelz, Peter, German Expressionist Painting (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957), pp. 204-5, pl. 83 (ill.). \n\nGrohmann, Will, Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work, trans. Norbert Guterman (New York: H. N. Abrams, 1958), pp. 104, 107, 331 (no. 120), 353 (ill. 53). \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 249.  \n\nMesser, Thomas M., \u201cKandinsky en Amerique,\u201d XXe Si\u00e8cle 27 (December 1966), p. 113.\n\nSpeyer, A. James, and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Painting (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 47, no. 2C1.\n\nWashton Long, Rose-Carol, Kandinsky, the Development of an Abstract Style (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), pl. 108 (ill.), pp. 98, 99, 133, 179, note 45.\n\nRoethel, Hans K., and Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky: Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9 of the Oil-Paintings, vol. 1 (London: Published for Sotheby Publications by Philip Wilson Publishers, 1982), cat. 378 (ill.).\n\nHahl-Koch, Jelena, Kandinsky (New York: Rizzoli, 1993), pp. 147 (color ill. 185), 148.\n\nSilver, Larry, Art in History (New York: Abbeville Press, 1993).\n\nFineberg, Jonathan, Mit dem Auge des Kindes : Kinderzeichnung und Moderne Kunst, exh. cat. (M\u00fcnchen: Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Stuttgart: Gerd Hatje, 1995), pp. 60, 65 (color ill. 3.16), 239 (no. 3.16).\n\n___, The Innocent Eye: Children's Art and the Modern Artist (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), pp. 50, 55 (color ill. 3.17), p. 230 (no. 3.17).","exhibition_history":"Zurich, Kunsthaus, Moderner Bund, July 1912, hors cat.\n\nFrankfurt, Galerie Goldschmidt, 1912.\n\nChicago, Art Institute, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of the Late Arthur Jerome Eddy, September 19-October 22, 1922, cat. 39. \n\nChicago, Art Institute, The Arthur Jerome Eddy Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture, December 22, 1931-January 17, 1932, cat. 7 (ill.).  \n\nSan Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Circuit Exhibition, 1932.\n\nPalm Beach, Fla., Society of the Four Arts, Exhibition of Russian Paintings, February 16-March 12, 1945, n. pag., cat. 47.\n\nChicago, Arts Club, Wassily Kandinsky Memorial Exhibition, November 1945, cat. 50.\n\nMinneapolis, University Gallery, University of Minnesota, German Expressionism in Art, 1905-1935: Painting, Sculpture, Prints, October 23-November 27, 1950, cat. 42.\n\nMunich, St\u00e4dtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Mit dem Auge des Kindes: Kinderzeichnung und Moderne Kunst, May 31-August 20, 1995, cat. 3.16 (color ill.); traveled to Bern, Kunstmuseum, September 7-November 26, 1995.","provenance_text":"Arthur Jerome Eddy (1859\u20131920), Chicago, by 1920; by descent to his wife Lucy O. 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