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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BRGA.2.8
People
Unidentified Artist
Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)
Title
"Exhibition Panel:" Grain Elevator, Montreal, Canada
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Kornsilo und Elevator, Montreal
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c. 1913
Culture
North American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/188426

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print with white gouache, mounted on blue-gray cardboard
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
irregular: 25.5 x 32.8 cm (10 1/16 x 12 15/16 in.)
mount: 18.3 x 24.6 cm (7 3/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso at u.l., graphite, English/German: Huge Grain Elevator Riesenkornspeicher[?] [also some other illegible inscriptions]
  • inscription: verso at l.l., graphite: Gropius
  • inscription: verso at l.r., graphite, German: Unten fällt weg ["bottom omitted"]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Walter Gropius
Object Number
BRGA.2.8
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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