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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1990.80
People
Herbert Bayer, American (Haag, Austria 1900 - 1985 Santa Barbara, CA)
Title
Study for Verdure
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Final sketch for Harvard mural
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1950
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221478

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pastel and graphite on tracing paper
Dimensions
20.7 x 46.4 cm (8 1/8 x 18 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at l.l. of image: bayer 1950/16
  • inscription: l.l., graphite, English, in artist's hand: Final sketch for Harvard mural

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Joella Bayer
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1990
Object Number
1990.80
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Bauhaus: Dessau, Chicago, New York, exh. cat., DuMont (Cologne, Germany, 2000), no. 97
  • Kate Smith and Teri Hensick, Lifting the Veil from Verdure, Object Lessons: The Bauhaus and Harvard, ed. Laura Muir, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 2021), Pages 205-212, Figure 1, Page 206

Exhibition History

  • Bauhaus: Dessau-Chicago-New York, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, 08/12/2000 - 11/12/2000

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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