Feininger inscribed along the lower edge: "la peinture à l'huile, c'est plus difficile; la peinture à l'eau, c'est peut-être plus beau!" [Oil painting is more difficult; watercolor painting is perhaps more beautiful!]
Details
- Artist Name: Lyonel Feininger (American, 1871-1956)
- Title: Full-Rigged Ship
- Date: 1933
- Medium: Watercolor and India ink on laid paper
- Dimensions: comp: 5-1/2 x 8 in. (14.0 x 20.3 cm); sheet: 8 x 10-1/2 in. (20.3 x 26.7 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.245
- 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.
Lyonel Feininger Retrospective
Works from the Pasadena Art Museum
- Vancouver Art Gallery, 1970-04-14 to 1970-05-10
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
Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31
Selections from the Permanent Collection
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1971-07-13 to 1971-09-19
Selections from the Galka E. Scheyer Blue Four Collection
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-10-02 to 1973-11-18
50 years bauhaus
- Stuttgart, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, 1968-05-05 to 1968-07-28
- Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), 1968-09-19 to 1968-10-27
- Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1968-11-30 to 1969-01-01
- Paris, Musee National d'Art Moderne, 1969-04-01 to 1969-06-22
- Illinois Institute of Technology, 1969-08-25 to 1969-09-26
- Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1969-12-05 to 1970-02-01
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1970-03-16 to 1970-04-26
- Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1970 to 1971
- Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, 1971 to 1971
Selections from Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee. The Blue Four Galka E. Scheyer Collection
- Seattle Art Museum, 1956-10-10 to 1956-11-04
- Portland, Portland Art Museum, 1956-11-08 to 1956-11-30
- , 1957-01-01 to 1957-01-31
- Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, 1957-03-02 to 1957-04-01
- Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, 1957-11-15 to 1957-12-15
- San Francisco Museum of Art, 1958-01-14 to 1958-02-23
- Vancouver Art Gallery, 1956-07 to 1956-08-31
Selections from the Galka E. Scheyer Collection
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1970-09-08 to 1970-12-17
Seascape/Cityscape: The Art of Lyonel Feininger
- Norton Simon Museum, 1993-07-15 to 1994-01-09
The Galka Scheyer Collection: Klee, Nolde, Jawlensky, Moholy-Nagy, Schmidt-Rottluff, Schwitters, Archipenko, Kandinsky, Lissitzky, Feininger, Kirchner, Dix_1
- La Jolla, Art Center in La Jolla, 1960-07-05 to 1960-08-14
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
The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World
- Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14
My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four
- Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
- Lyonel Feininger, p. 23
- The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 6 pp. 19, 25
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 035 p. 52
- Gilbert Holzgang, Galka Scheyer : Ein Leben für Kunst und Kreativität, 2023, p. 229 (ill.)
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