About the Artwork
Design for Mural, New York World's Fair, 1939
1939
Lyonel Feininger
1871-1956
American
Unknown
Watercolor, charcoal, pen and ink on cream laid paper
Sheet: 4 5/8 × 25 inches (11.7 × 63.5 cm) Framed: 10 1/4 × 30 5/8 × 1 1/8 inches (26 × 77.8 × 2.9 cm)
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Gift of Miss Florence Davies
61.398
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Markings
Signed and dated, in pen and ink, lower left: Feininger 1939
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Provenance
W.R. Valentiner. Florence Davies
1961-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Feininger-Hartley. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1944, p. 49.
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Lyonel Feininger, Design for Mural, New York World's Fair, 1939, 1939, watercolor, charcoal, pen and ink on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Miss Florence Davies, 61.398.
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