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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BRGA.82.111
People
Robert Damora, American (1912-2009 Bedford, New York)
Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)
Title
Gropius Residence, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1938: Staircase in entrance hall
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1947
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/219453

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print mounted to cream paperboard
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 41.3 x 34.5 cm (16 1/4 x 13 9/16 in.)
mount: 41.3 x 49.5 cm (16 1/4 x 19 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on mount in graphite at l.r.: DAMORA.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Walter Gropius
Copyright
© Estate of Robert Damora
Object Number
BRGA.82.111
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Freiräume: Häuser, die Geschichte machten, 1920 bis 1940, HypoVereinsbank (Munich, 1998), p. 146, b/w illus.
  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 101
  • Amy Finstein, A Gropius-Breuer House Like Notable Others: Consumerism, Copying, and Connoisseurship in an Unsung Commision, WInterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, 2022), 56, 3-36, Pg. 22, Fig. 24, img. b/w

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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