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A black and white photograph of a building with trees in the background.

The black and white photograph shows a corner section of a building with a pointed, tiled roof in the center, there are windows on either side of the corner. A white triangle is the center of the bottom edge, transparent white lines radiate out and up at a forty-five degree angle to the left and right edges. There is a transparent design the same as the tile room with fills in and is bounded by the radiating white lines and forming a square around the building in the center. There are trees and grass visible across the upper edge of the image.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
P2003.227
People
Lotte Jacobi, German (Thorn, West Prussia, Germany 1896 - 1990 Concord, New Hampshire)
Title
Untitled (photomontage of Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photomontage, photograph
Date
n.d.
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/71403

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 8.2 x 10.6 cm (3 1/4 x 4 3/16 in.)
sheet: 13.8 x 8.7 cm (5 7/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: recto, b.r. in graphite: Lotte Jacobi
  • inscription: recto, b.r., graphite, signed, in artist's hand: Lotte Jacobi

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Sam Pratt
Accession Year
2004
Object Number
P2003.227
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1110 Mid-Century Abstraction II (Post-Painterly Abstraction), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/04/2018 - 04/09/2019

Verification Level

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