In 1913, The Newark Museum was the first American museum to mount a solo exhibition of a living modernist artist - at a time when the very idea of abstraction as art was still being argued.🗣️✨ ⭐️The artist was Max Weber.⭐️ Weber’s fractured planes, bold color, and spiritual geometry were decades ahead of the cultural mainstream. 🟦💐 Max Weber, The Blue Vase, 1914 Oil on canvas, 24 1/4 x 20 1/4 in. Purchase (by exchange) 1986. Gift of Emilie Coles from the J. Ackerman Coles Collection, Mrs. Lewis B. Ballantyne and the Bequest of Louis Bamberger 86.218 #abstract #nmoa #funfact #maxweber