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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1950.169
People
Herbert Bayer, American (Haag, Austria 1900 - 1985 Santa Barbara, CA)
Title
Verdure
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1950
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311569

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
sight: 189.9 × 596.9 × 5.1 cm (74 3/4 × 235 × 2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Bayer 50

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Herbert Bayer, sold; to Harvard Corporation, 1950, transferred; to Fogg Art Museum, 1950.

NOTE: Work was commissioned by the Harvard Corporation.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Commissioned by Harvard Corporation
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1950
Object Number
1950.169
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Herbert Bayer, "Design, Designer and Industry", Magazine of Art, American Federation of Arts (December 1951), pps. 324-325, reproduced in b/w p. 325
  • Laura Muir, Object Lessons: The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 276, 280, plate 41, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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