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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BRGA.82.118
People
Robert Damora, American (1912-2009 Bedford, New York)
Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)
Title
Gropius Residence, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1938: Roof deck
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1947
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/198911

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 33.8 x 41.1 cm (13 5/16 x 16 3/16 in.)
mount: 49.5 x 41.1 cm (19 1/2 x 16 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on mount in graphite at l.r.: DAMORA.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Walter Gropius
Copyright
© Estate of Robert Damora
Object Number
BRGA.82.118
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Freiräume: Häuser, die Geschichte machten, 1920 bis 1940, HypoVereinsbank (Munich, 1998), p. 145, b/w illus.
  • Ken Tadashi Oshima, ed., Visions of the real : modern houses in the 20th century I, A&U Publishing Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan, 2000), p. 219 (top)
  • Gropius House, brochure, Historic New England (Lincoln, MA, 2011), pp. 16-17, ill.

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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