This stage setting, with its puppet-like characters, recalls both the elaborate villages Feininger carved out of wood and his earlier "children's drawings."
Details
- Artist Name: Lyonel Feininger (American, 1871-1956)
- Title: Untitled
- Date: 1945
- Medium: Watercolor, silver pigment and India ink on laid paper
- Dimensions: 8-5/8 x 12-1/2 in. (21.9 x 31.8 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.168
- Copyright: © Lyonel Feininger / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Object Information
Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.
Seascape/Cityscape: The Art of Lyonel Feininger
- Norton Simon Museum, 1993-07-15 to 1994-01-09
Paths to Abstraction: Pioneers of Early 20th Century Painting
- Norton Simon Museum, 1989-01-19 to 1990-01-14
The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum
- Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05
Maven of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in California
- Norton Simon Museum, 2017-04-07 to 2017-09-25
Lyonel Feininger 1871-1956: A Memorial Exhibition
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1966-04-26 to 1966-05-29
- Milwaukee Art Center, 1966-07-10 to 1966-08-11
- Baltimore Museum of Art, 1966-09-07 to 1966-10-23
Bauhaus Painters; Spirit of Modernism: Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, Oskar Schlemmer, Alexander Archipenko, Alexei Jawlensky and Others
- Seoul, Ho-Am Art Museum, 1996-02-08 to 1996-04-28
My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four
- Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World
- Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14
- Lyonel Feininger, p. 28
- Sandback, Amy Baker, Artforum, p. 127
- The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 10 pp. 27, 29
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 041 p. 57
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