1990.80: Study for Verdure
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1990.80
- People
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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
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- 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
- Permissions
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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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