Your Collection

Add this item to your collection
Harvard Art Museums
Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
This object does not yet have a description.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.233
People
Paul Klee, Swiss (Münchenbuchsee near Bern, Switzerland 1879 - 1940 Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland)
Title
Landing Boat
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1929
Culture
Swiss
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312324

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over gesso on gauze cloth mounted on paper
Dimensions
34.7 x 51 cm (13 11/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: Klee

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Heinrich Stinnes (?- 1932); his sale [Gutekunst &Klipstein, Bern, June 20-22, 1938, cat.535).[Curt Valentin, Buchholtz Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1944, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.233
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

  • Robert Taylor, "Venice Observed, Show in Dramatic Fogg Display", The Boston Herald (May 13, 1956), p. 19, p. 19
  • Paul Klee, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1993), no. 23
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 84, fig. 13 (color), pp. 36, 37, 47, 54, 75, 82, 126, 186 note 22, 371

Exhibition History

  • 20th Century Abstract Painting and Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 04/16/1947 - 05/18/1947
  • [Benefit exhibition for the Boston Arts Festival], Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, 05/08/1956 - 05/29/1956
  • Klee and Kandinsky: Works from the Harvard Collection and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/17/1981
  • Paul Klee, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/17/1993 - 06/13/1993
  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1480 to 1940, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/25/2000 - 07/02/2000
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu