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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1986.312
People
Lyonel Feininger, American (New York, NY 1871 - 1956 New York, NY)
Title
Original "Nature Note" for the painting "Cloud after the Storm" ("Bird Cloud")
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Originalnotiz zum Gemälde "Wolke n. dem Sturm" ("Vogelwolke")
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
8/6/1924
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221363

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
14.1 x 21.6 cm (5 9/16 x 8 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in black ink at l.r.: Feininger
  • inscription: l.l., black ink, handwritten, German, in artist's hand: Originalnotiz zum Gemälde "Wolke n. dem Sturm" ("Vogelwolke")
  • inscription: l.l., graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: 6 8 24

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of T. Lux Feininger
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1986
Object Number
1986.312
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
There are a few small splatters of blue ink at the l.r. of drawing

Publication History

  • Peter Nisbet and Emilie Norris, Busch-Reisinger Museum: History and Holdings, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 87, ill.
  • Lyonel Feininger : von Gelmeroda nach Manhattan, exh. cat., Staatliche Museen zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin, Germany, 1998), p. 142 (ill.)
  • Vivian Endicott Barnett, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2002), Fig. 30A, b/w
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 205, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Lyonel Feininger in Germany: 1887-1937, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/10/1996 - 05/12/1996

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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