Dec 31, 2024

Morton D. May, itineraries of selected artworks





(Above) Sankey of Provenance of The Little Mountain Goats

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(Below) Interactive Sankey for several artworks

  • The Little Mountain Goats
  • Pitcher and Fruit Bowl
  • View from the Window
  • Artillerymen in the Shower
  • Spring
  • The Dream
data extracted by ChatGPT4o
(note that the itinerary for Artillerymen does not include the earlier provenance)


1. The Little Mountain Goats

  • Franz Marc (1914–1924) → Georg Hess (1924–1936) → Liselotta Hess (1939) → Buchholz Gallery (1939–1957) → Morton D. May (1957–1983) → Saint Louis Art Museum (1983–present).

2. Pitcher and Fruit Bowl

  • Galerie Paul Rosenberg (by 1938) → Rosenberg & Helft (1938–1948) → Paul Rosenberg & Co. (1948–1957)→ Morton D. May (1957–1983) → Saint Louis Art Museum (1983–present).

3. View from the Window

  • Kunsthalle Hamburg (1920–1937) → Confiscated by Nazis (1937–1941) → Galerie Ferdinand Möller (1941–1945) → Kurt Feldhäusser (1945) → Marie Luise Feldhäusser (1948) → E. Weyhe Gallery (1948–1951) → Morton D. May (1951–1983) → Saint Louis Art Museum (1983–present).

4. Artillerymen in the Shower

  • Nasjonalmuseet (2020–present)

5. Spring

  • Alexei Jawlensky (1936/1937) → Emmy Galka Scheyer (1937–1960) → New Gallery (Eugene V. Thaw, 1960–1983) → Morton D. May (1983) → Saint Louis Art Museum (1983–present).

6. The Dream

  • Max Beckmann (1921–1924) → I. B. Neumann (1924) → Benno Elkan (1924–1957) → Galerie des Arts Anciens et Modernes (1957–1983) → Morton D. May (1983) → Saint Louis Art Museum (1983–present)

Sankey Diagram
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Let's add the earlier provenance of Artillerymen (aka Soldatenbad) before it was acquired by the Nasjonalmuseet 


Note that Kurt Feldhäusser was a Nazi party member whose mother sold several artworks that had been looted from Jewish collectors  to Weyhe Gallery

  • Galerie Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt
  • Alfred Flechtheim, Dusseldorf (acquired from the above in 1919)
  • Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf (acquired by donation in 1928-29)
  • Alfred Flechtheim, Dusseldorf (acquired from the above by exchange in 1930 and left in the custody of his niece, Rosi Hulisch, on his departure from Germany in 1933)
  • Kurt Feldhäusser, Berlin (acquired in 1938)
  • Marie Luise Feldhäusser, Berlin (by inheritance from her son, above, in 1945)
  • Erhard Weyhe Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1949)
  • Mr. & Mrs. Morton D. May, St. Louis (acquired by 1952)
  • The Museum of Modern Art, New York (a gift from the above in 1956)
  • The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (by exchange from the above in 1988)
  • Acquired by restitution from the above in 2018



Sankey Diagram

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