BR65.26: Skyscrapers
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BR65.26
- People
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Lyonel Feininger, American (New York, NY 1871 - 1956 New York, NY)
- Title
- Skyscrapers
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1955
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/222624
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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100.4 × 80 cm (39 1/2 × 31 1/2 in.)
frame: 101.9 × 83.2 × 3.8 cm (40 1/8 × 32 3/4 × 1 1/2 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: at l.r.: Feininger 1955
- inscription: on stretcher, handwritten, in artist's hand: "Mellingen II 1931"
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- The artist (1955-1956) by descent; to Julia Feininger, New York (1956-1965) gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1965.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mrs. Julia Feininger
- Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Accession Year
- 1965
- Object Number
- BR65.26
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- Lyonel Feininger Retrospective, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 10/26/2023 - 02/18/2024
Subjects and Contexts
- The Bauhaus
Verification Level
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