Helen Lundeberg
Microcosm and Macrocosm1937

Not on view

Vertical surrealist oil painting with a large female figure holding a hand mirror at left, overlooking a seascape containing circled vignettes of a ringed planet, a nebula, floating white rabbits, and small skeletal figures

Artist or Maker: Helen Lundeberg
United States, Illinois, Chicago, active Los Angeles, 1908-1999
Title: Microcosm and Macrocosm
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1937
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Dimensions: 34 x 19 1/2 in. (86.36 × 49.53 cm) Framed: 37 × 19 1/2 × 1 5/8 in. (93.98 × 49.53 × 4.13 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Honeyman, Jr.
Accession Number: M.2003.50
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: American Art
Selected Bibliography: Stein, Donna. "The Art of Helen Lundeberg: Illuminating Portraits." Woman's Art Journal 27, no.1 (Spring/Summer 2006): 10-16.
LACMA: Obras Maestras 1750-1950: Pintura Estadounidense Del Museo De Arte Del Condado De Los Angeles. Mexico, D.F.: Museo Nacional de Arte, 2006.
Fort, Ilene Susan, Tere Arcq, with Terri Geis, eds. In Wonderland: the Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Prestel, 2012.
Helen Lundeberg: a Retrospective Exhibition. La Jolla, CA: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1971.
Duncan, Michael. Post Surrealism. Logan, UT: Utah State University, 2002.
Arts of Southern California - XIV: Early Moderns. Long Beach: Long Beach Museum of Art, 1963.
Trenton, Patricia, ed. Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945. Los Angeles: Autry Museum of Western Heritage, 1995.
Moran, Diane. "Post-surrealism: the Art of Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg." Arts Magazine 57, no.4 (1982): 124-128.
Fort, Ilene Susan, and Michael Duncan. Helen Lundeberg: A Retrospective. Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Art Museum, 2016.
Muchnic, Suzanne. Helen Lundeberg: Poetry Space Silence. West Hollywood: Louis Stern Fine Arts; Orange, CA: Feitelson / Lundeberg Art Foundation, 2014.
Malloy, Vanja V., editor. Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein. Amherst: Mead Art Museum, 2018.
Kinkel, Marianne. "Cosmic Allegories: Post-Surrealism and Astronomy in Interwar Los Angeles." The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 14 (2018). http://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-space-between-literature-and-culture-1914-1945/vol14_2018_kinkel.
Duncan, Michael, and Sharrissa Iqbal, editors. Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Science, 1945-1990. Palm Springs: Palm Springs Art Museum, 2024.
Copyright: © The Feitelson/Lundeberg Art Foundation

Helen Lundeberg
Microcosm and Macrocosm1937

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Helen Lundeberg
United States, Illinois, Chicago, active Los Angeles, 1908-1999
Title: Microcosm and Macrocosm
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1937
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Dimensions: 34 x 19 1/2 in. (86.36 × 49.53 cm) Framed: 37 × 19 1/2 × 1 5/8 in. (93.98 × 49.53 × 4.13 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Honeyman, Jr.
Accession Number: M.2003.50
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: American Art
Selected Bibliography: Stein, Donna. "The Art of Helen Lundeberg: Illuminating Portraits." Woman's Art Journal 27, no.1 (Spring/Summer 2006): 10-16.
LACMA: Obras Maestras 1750-1950: Pintura Estadounidense Del Museo De Arte Del Condado De Los Angeles. Mexico, D.F.: Museo Nacional de Arte, 2006.
Fort, Ilene Susan, Tere Arcq, with Terri Geis, eds. In Wonderland: the Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Prestel, 2012.
Helen Lundeberg: a Retrospective Exhibition. La Jolla, CA: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1971.
Duncan, Michael. Post Surrealism. Logan, UT: Utah State University, 2002.
Arts of Southern California - XIV: Early Moderns. Long Beach: Long Beach Museum of Art, 1963.
Trenton, Patricia, ed. Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945. Los Angeles: Autry Museum of Western Heritage, 1995.
Moran, Diane. "Post-surrealism: the Art of Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg." Arts Magazine 57, no.4 (1982): 124-128.
Fort, Ilene Susan, and Michael Duncan. Helen Lundeberg: A Retrospective. Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Art Museum, 2016.
Muchnic, Suzanne. Helen Lundeberg: Poetry Space Silence. West Hollywood: Louis Stern Fine Arts; Orange, CA: Feitelson / Lundeberg Art Foundation, 2014.
Malloy, Vanja V., editor. Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein. Amherst: Mead Art Museum, 2018.
Kinkel, Marianne. "Cosmic Allegories: Post-Surrealism and Astronomy in Interwar Los Angeles." The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 14 (2018). http://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-space-between-literature-and-culture-1914-1945/vol14_2018_kinkel.
Duncan, Michael, and Sharrissa Iqbal, editors. Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Science, 1945-1990. Palm Springs: Palm Springs Art Museum, 2024.