Argonauts (Sketch for Triptych and Study for Center Panel)

1946 and 1950 · Drawing

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Not on view at present

Where is “Argonauts (Sketch for Triptych and Study for Center Panel)” now? Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

Checked: 10 days ago
In this state since: Aug 19, 2026
Source: The museum

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Details

Accession number: 1985.18.19

What it shows

Argonauts

In the catalog

Drawings & watercolors Pen and ink Post-war art 20th century German

Sources

National Gallery of Art
Image: National Gallery of Art — © the artist or rights holder

In the life of Max Beckmann

The whole life

1937–1947
Ten years of exile in Amsterdam
Beckmann lives in Amsterdam in self-imposed exile, making desperate but failed attempts to obtain a visa for the United States.
1944
The threat of conscription and a heart attack
In 1944 the Germans try to draft the sixty-year-old Beckmann into the army, although he has suffered a heart attack; he barely escapes mobilisation.
1947
Moving to the United States to teach in St. Louis
In 1947 Beckmann and his wife finally cross the ocean: at the invitation of Perry T. Rathbone, director of the Saint Louis Art Museum, he takes a teaching post at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts at Washington University, a vacancy left by Philip Guston, who had taken a leave.
1948
The first retrospective in the United States
The first Beckmann retrospective in the United States takes place in 1948 at the City Art Museum in St. Louis.
1950
A one-man show at the Venice Biennale
Beckmann has a one-man show at the Venice Biennale of 1950, the year of his death.
27 December 1950
Died