BRGA.82.111: Gropius Residence, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1938: Staircase in entrance hall

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BRGA.82.111

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: Staircase in entrance hall

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

1947

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/219453

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gelatin silver print mounted to cream paperboard

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 41.3 x 34.5 cm (16 1/4 x 13 9/16 in.)
mount: 41.3 x 49.5 cm (16 1/4 x 19 1/2 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.82.111

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Freiräume: Häuser, die Geschichte machten, 1920 bis 1940, HypoVereinsbank (Munich, 1998), p. 146, b/w illus.
• Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 101
• Amy Finstein, A Gropius-Breuer House Like Notable Others: Consumerism, Copying, and Connoisseurship in an Unsung Commision, WInterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, 2022), 56, 3-36, Pg. 22, Fig. 24, img. b/w

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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