Marine mit bewölktem Himmel (Seascape with Cloudy Sky)
Lyonel Feininger, American (active in Germany), 1871 - 1956
Sunday June 4th 1922
Blue wash and black ink on soft laid paper
Image: 8 5/8 × 11 13/16 in. (21.9 × 30 cm)
Sheet: 11 9/16 × 14 1/8 in. (29.4 × 35.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Daisy V. Shapiro in memory of her son, Richard David Shapiro, Class of 1943
W.962.190
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Nazi-Era Provenance Research
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in ink, lower left: Feininger; inscribed, lower center: MARINE mit / bewölktem Himmel; dated, lower right: Sonntag d. 4 Juni. 1922; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, lower left: 73.
Exhibition History
Cubism and Its Affinities, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 9-September 5, 1976.
Honoring Reunion Classes, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 3-19, 1977.
Lyonel Feininger, Akademie der Schonen Kunste, Munich, Germany, no. 43, 1954-55.
Lyonel Feininger, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany, 1954.
Lyonel Feininger, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland, 1954-1955.
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.
The Protean Century, 1870-1970, A Loan Exhibition from The Dartmouth College Collection, Alumni and Friends of the College [under the auspices of the Dartmouth Arts Council], M. Knoedler & Company, Inc, New York, New York, February 10-28, 1970, no. 12.
The Richard David Shapiro 1943 Memorial Collection, Barrows Print Room, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, no. 6, June 1968.
Twentieth Century Masters from the Permanent Collection, Barrows Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 3-March 5, 1978.
Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, no. 36, May 30-September 21, 1975.
Publication History
Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1985, p. 134.
Franklin W. Robinson, [et al.], Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Hanover, N.H.: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1975, pp. 36-37.
"The Protean Century, 1870-1970, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1970, no. 12.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 37, 146, 263-264, ill. p. 147, no. 43.
Sale 22 catalogue, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett (auction house), Stuttgart, Germany, November 1955, page 39, no. 1127.
Provenance
Alfred Hess (1879–1931), Erfurt, Germany; probably Tekla Hess (1884–1967), Erfurt, Germany; consigned to Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett (auction house), Stuttgart, Germany, sale 5, April 6-8, 1949, lot 1426; Max Fischer (1886–1975), Stuttgart, Germany; consigned to Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett (auction house), Stuttgart, Germany, sale 22, November 29-December 1, 1955, lot 1127; Walter Bareiss (1919–2007), Greenwich, Connecticut, 1955; The New Gallery, Inc., New York, by 1960; sold to Daisy Viertel Shapiro (1890–1984), New York, 1960; given to present collection, 1962.
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