1950.169: Verdure
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1950.169
- People
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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
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- Signed: l.r.: Bayer 50
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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
- Permissions
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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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