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the museum's ownership of the collection. In 2002, the Norton Simon Art
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American exhibition of their work at the Charles Daniel Gallery, New York, in 1925. The next year she travelled to the west coast and began arranging exhibits of work by the Blue Four and giving lectures on their
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Scheyer's will required that the institution receiving her collection "publish an illustrated catalogue of the
Collection with as many color and photographic reproductions of the pictures as possible, and a minimum of written descriptive matter." Simon fulfilled that obligation in 1976, confirming
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work in multiple major cities. Scheyer initially settled in the Bay Area. In 1926 she was named the "European representative" of the
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to build a concrete and glass house on a winding street, off Sunset Plaza, which she named Blue
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were among those introduced to the work of these artists through
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in Weimar, Germany, Jawlensky introduced her to Feininger, Kandinsky and Klee, who were instructors at the avant-garde art school.
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