2000.270: Sketch for Museum Installation

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

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