[Passengers on ship deck with the New York skyline in the distance]

Identification and Creation

Object Number: BRLF.492.12
People: Lyonel Feininger, American (New York, NY 1871 - 1956 New York, NY)
Title: [Passengers on ship deck with the New York skyline in the distance]
Classification: Photographs
Work Type: negative, photograph
Date: 1936
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States, New York
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/36090

Physical Descriptions

Technique: Negative, gelatin silver (35mm film)
Dimensions: 2.5 x 3.5 cm (1 x 1 3/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of T. Lux Feininger
Copyright: © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Object Number: BRLF.492.12
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Lyonel Feininger : von Gelmeroda nach Manhattan, exh. cat., Staatliche Museen zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin, Germany, 1998), p. 23, ill.
Andreas Platthaus, Lyonel Feininger: Porträt eines Lebens, Rowohlt Verlag GmbH (Berlin, 2021)
Ingrid Pfeiffer, ed., Lyonel Feininger: Retrospective, exh. cat., Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and Hirmer Verlag (Frankfurt and Munich, 2023), p. 255, fig. 11, ill. (color)

Subjects and Contexts

The Bauhaus
Lyonel Feininger: Photographs

Verification Level

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