BRGA.82.138: Gropius Residence, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1938: Model

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BRGA.82.138

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: Model

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

1938

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/311013

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Wood, plaster and other materials with gouache

Dimensions

actual: 86.4 x 61.2 cm (34 x 24 1/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Walter Gropius

Object Number

BRGA.82.138

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Freiräume: Häuser, die Geschichte machten, 1920 bis 1940, HypoVereinsbank (Munich, 1998), p. 149, b/w illus.

Exhibition History

• Display in New Walter Gropius Room, Loeb Library, Cambridge, 04/14/1991 - 04/17/1992
• Exiles and Emigres: 1933-1945, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 02/20/1997 - 05/11/1997; Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Montreal, 06/19/1997 - 09/07/1997; Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, 10/16/1997 - 01/04/1998
• The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000 (Part I: 1900-1950), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 04/22/1999 - 08/22/1999

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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