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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BRGA.82.73
People
Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)
Marcel Breuer, American (Pecs, Hungary 1902 - 1981 New York, N.Y., USA)
Title
Gropius Residence, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1938: First floor plan
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1938
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221040

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink and graphite on paper
Dimensions
62.5 x 91.7 cm (24 5/8 x 36 1/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Walter Gropius
Object Number
BRGA.82.73
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. 141, b/w illus.
  • 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. 17, Fig. 17, img. b/w

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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