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Siesta (Sleeping Woman)

Artist Bumpei Usui (American, born Japan, 1898 - 1994)

CultureAmerican

Date1930

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions42 1/8 × 68 in. (107 × 172.7 cm)

SignedSigned and dated in the lower right “Bumpei Usui 1930.”

Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds provided by Joan Brock

Object number2024.7

Collections

American Art before 1945

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 221

DescriptionThis is an oil on canvas painting of a woman reclining across a bed. The bed is situated in a simply furnished room, with an open door on the far wall leading into a bathroom. The woman’s jacket and hat are placed on the bed and a purse is on the bedside table.
ProvenanceProvenance: The artist [Salander Galleries, New York] [Terry DeLapp, Los Angeles] Private collection, Los Angeles, acquired directly from the above, 1980 Debra Force’s gallery in New York to CMA 2024 Exhibition HistoryNew York, Society of Independent Artists, 14th Annual Exhibition, March 1 – 30, 1930 (as Siesta) New York, Salander Galleries, Bumpei Usui: Paintings 1925 – 1949, April 17 – May 25, 1979, no. 6Published ReferencesAllen Tucker, “Four Talks on Design: Balance,” The Arts, vol. XVI, no. 7, March 1930, p. 489, illus. (as Siesta)