Small Worlds III
1922
Vassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866–1944)
Not on View

Kandinsky's first contribution to the Bauhaus printing workshop was a portfolio entitled Small Worlds. This group of twelve prints included lithographs, etchings, and woodcuts. Ten years later, Kandinsky reminded Scheyer of the portfolio's high quality: "All copies were printed under my continuous guidance. . . .the entire execution is first class."

Details

  • Artist Name: Vassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866–1944)
  • Title: Small Worlds III
  • Date: 1922
  • Medium: Color lithograph on wove paper
  • Dimensions: comp: 11 x 9-1/8 in. (27.9 x 23.2 cm); sheet: 13-1/2 x 11 in. (34.1 x 27.9 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.207
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

European Modernists

  • Los Angeles, California School of Fine Arts, 1927-04 to ?-

  • Oakland Art Gallery, to

Prints and Drawings Form the Galka E. Scheyer Blue Four Collection

  • Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, 1972-02-15 to 1972-03-31

Wassily Kandinsky Prints

  • Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-07-05 to 1973-09-28

The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee

  • Portland, Portland Art Association and the Museum of Art, 1927-04-08 to 1927-05-01
  • Spokane, Spokane Art Association, 1927-05-15 to 1927-05-31
  • San Francisco, California School of Fine Arts, 1927-03-01 to 1927-03-20

Kandinsky

  • Oakland Art Gallery, 1929-04 to 1929-05-10

From Paris to Pasadena: An Overview of Color Lithography, 1890-1975

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2000-10-04 to 2001-01-15

Klee, Kandinsky, Jawlensky: Works from the Bauhaus Period

  • School of Art Gallery, The Ohio State University, 1966-11-11 to 1966-11-30

Kandinsky Paintings and Graphics: Retrospective of Kandinsky's Bauhaus Years

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1989-01-19 to 1990-01-14

Kandinsky

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1994-01-13 to 1994-09-11

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

The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum

  • Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05
  • Roethel, Hans Konrad, Kandinsky: Das graphische Werk, 1970, no. 166
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 246 p. 84
  • Campbell Abdo, Sara, Wassily Kandinsky, 1994, p. 10
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 272 p. 228
  • Weber, Nicholas Fox and Jessica Boissel, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky: Friends in Exile, 2010, p. 72

Additional Artwork by Artist

Blue Vassily Kandinsky 1922
Lithograph for the Fourth Bauhaus Portfolio Vassily Kandinsky 1922
Lithograph No. III Vassily Kandinsky 1925

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