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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2000.270
People
Herbert Bayer, American (Haag, Austria 1900 - 1985 Santa Barbara, CA)
Title
Sketch for Museum Installation
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1947
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/178131

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on tan wove paper
Dimensions
40 x 30 cm (15 3/4 x 11 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at l.r.: bayer
  • inscription: l.r., graphite, handwritten, German: Zeitlosigkeit/ Antike slg [sammlung] eingebaut / in Gegenwartsbau
  • inscription: l.l., graphite, handwritten, German: Kompass
  • inscription: l.l., graphite, handwritten, German: Himmel
  • inscription: l.l., graphite, handwritten, German: 1947

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Transfer from the Alexander Dorner Papers, Busch-Reisinger Museum Archives
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
2000
Object Number
2000.270
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Benjamin Benus, Herbert Bayer's World Geographic Atlas and Information Design at Midcentury, RIT Press (Rochester, 2023), p. 37, fig. 25, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/23/2019 - 05/13/2019

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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