Landscape with Two Poplars
1912 · Oil on canvas · The Art Institute of Chicago
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About this work
- Artist
- Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944)
- Year
- 1912
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 78.8 × 100.4 cm
- Collection
- The Art Institute of Chicago
- Movement
- Expressionism
Two tall, dark poplars rise at the left of a hillside village, with a church spire beyond them and fields laid out in broad slabs of green, crimson, ochre and blue; a pale path runs diagonally through the foreground, and houses are reduced to a few strokes. The trees and buildings are still there, but colour has taken over from description. Kandinsky painted it in 1912, at the height of his Blue Rider years, when he was moving between such landscapes and his first fully abstract canvases, and it turns the Bavarian countryside he knew into blocks of colour. The Chicago collector Arthur Jerome Eddy bought it from the artist in 1913, the year Kandinsky's work was shown in the Armory Show in New York and Chicago, and it came to the Art Institute of Chicago with the Eddy memorial gift in 1931.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Dark poplars and a church spire above fields of crimson, green, ochre and blue, for a living room, dining room or hallway at 32×24 in natural wood. A sage, cream or warm grey wall; it pairs with Murnau, Landscape with Tower.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1912)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, dining room, hallway or entryway
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 32×24. Prints at 16×12, 24×18, 32×24 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard; 32×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or natural wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
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An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
