Black Composition on Tan
Fernand Léger, French, 1881 - 1955
about 1938-1939
Ink on Masonite
Overall: 47 3/4 × 50 in. (121.3 × 127 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson A. Rockefeller, Class of 1930, in memory of Wallace K. Harrison, Class of 1950H
P.967.69
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right: F. L. Label on reverse: Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection, no. 25-1063.
Exhibition History
Beaumont-May Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 26, 1975-January 4, 1976.
Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August-September 15, 1973.
Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 15-March 10, 2002.
Fernand Leger, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, January 1974.
Thank You, Wallace K. Harrison, Jaffe-Friede Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 16-April 28, 1985.
Publication History
Jacquelyn Bass, Thank You, Wallace K. Harrison, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1985, p.38, no.13.
Provenance
Collected by Ellen Hunt Milton Harrison (1903-1995) and Wallace K. Harrison (1895-1981); given to present collection, 1967.
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