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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1985.7.4
People
Andreas Feininger, American (Paris 1906 - 1999 New York City)
Title
Black-lined Tun Shell, tonna melanostoma Jay
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Volume IV: Shell, 1976
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c. 1960
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/174645

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 31.8 x 24.2 cm (12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
mount: 43 x 35.5 cm (16 15/16 x 14 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: b.r. of mount in graphite: Andreas Feininger
  • inscription: recto, below image on mount, graphite, signed, in artist's hand: 3/100 Andreas Feininger

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., New York, New York. on Long Term Loan to the Fogg Art Museum from 1981 to 1985

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden
Accession Year
1985
Object Number
P1985.7.4
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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