Kreisen (Circling)

Wassily Kandinsky, Russian, 1866 - 1944

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1924

Black ink, graphite and watercolor on wove paper

Overall: 14 1/4 × 14 1/2 in. (36.2 × 36.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Wallace K. Harrison, Class of 1950H, in honor of Nelson A. Rockefeller, Class of 1930

W.966.1

Geography

Place Made: Russia, Europe

Period

20th century

Object Name

Watercolor

Research Area

Watercolor

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, lower left: K 24; inscribed on reverse: no. 130 / 1924

Course History

FREN 25, Introduction to French Literature and Culture IV: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Aimee Kilbane, Spring 2012

ENGL 53, Twentieth Century British Fiction: 1900 to WWII, Brenda Silver, Spring 2013

FREN 25, Introduction to French Literature and Culture IV: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Aimee Kilbane, Spring 2012

WRIT 5, Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2014

Writing 7.2, Writers on Writing, Wendy Piper, Spring 2014

THEA 17, 19th and 20th century Performance, Laura Edmondson, Spring 2014

WRIT 7.2, Writers on Writing, Wendy Piper, Spring 2015

WRIT 7 , Religion and Literature: Re-visioning the Natural, Nancy Crumbine, Spring 2015

RUSS 28, Intermediate Russian, Alfia Rakova, Winter 2019

MUS 23, Timbre and Form, Richard Beaudoin, Spring 2019

ARTH 41.02, 20th Century European Art 1900-1945, Katie Hornstein, Fall 2021

Exhibition History

20th Century Masters from the Permanent Collection, Barrows Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 3-March 5, 1978.

An Introduction of the History of Art from the Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12-March 15, 1992.

Churchill P. Lathrop at Dartmouth 1928-1978, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, and Barrows Windows, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 20-November 26, 1978.

Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 17-March 13, 1997.

Cubism and Its Aftershocks, Citrin Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 24-October 29, 2019.

Director's Choice, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 10-July 10, 1966.

Early Modern Art from the Permanent Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 16, 1995-January 28, 1996.

European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 2008-March 8, 2009.

Kandinsky: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, Municipal Museums Jena, Jena, Germany, September 6-November 22, 2009.

Kandinsky: Works on Paper, Royal Academy of Arts, London, April 14-July 4, 1999

Modernism: The Making of the 20th Century Vision, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 22-July 8, 1990.

One-Man Exhibition, Prinzessinnenschlosschen, Kunstverein, Jena, Germany, March 15-April 12, 1925.

Rococo to Modernism: European Drawings and Watercolors from the Permanent Collection and Dartmouth's Alumni, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-May 30, 2004.

Thank You, Wallace K. Harrison, Jaffe-Friede Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 26- April 28, 1985

The Machine in the Garden: Cubist Art from the Hood Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 26-August 24, 1986.

The Object World, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ARTH2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 5-March 15, 2015.

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.

Untitled exhibition, E.F. Schulz u. Co., Plauen, Germany, May 11-24, 1924.

Wassily Kandinsky, Angermuseum, Kunstverein, Erfurt, Germany, January, 1925.

Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 30-September 21, 1975.

Publication History

Frank Whitford, Kandinsky: Watercolors and other Works on Paper, London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1999, ill. p. 156. fig. 83

Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours: Catalogue Raisonne, Volume Two, 1922-1944, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994, p. 102, no. 687.

Pictured in the "Thank You, Wallace K. Harrison" catalog, 1985, Eastern Press, new Haven, CT, Cover and p.55

Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1985, p. 133.

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. 31-33.

The Protean Century, 1870-1970, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1970, no. 26.

T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 204-205, ill. p.204, no. 129.

Brian Kennedy, Sean Scully: The Art of the Stripe, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, ill. p. 8.

Erik Stephan, Punkt und Linie zu Flache, Kandisky am Bauhaus [Point and Line Space; Kandinsky at the Bauhaus], Jena: Ausstellungskatalog Städtische Museen Jena, 2009, illl. p. 129.

John M. Kopper and Michael Wachtel, "A Convenient Territory": Russian Literature at the Edge of Modernity: Essays in Honor of Barry Scherr, Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers, 2015, 393 pp., cover ill.

John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 147, ill. plate no. 78.

Provenance

Curt Valentin Gallery, New York; sold to Ellen Hunt Milton Harrison (1903-1995) and Wallace K. Harrison (1895-1981), 1937; given to present collection, 1966.

Catalogue Raisonne

V. Barnett, Kandinsky Watercolours, Vol. Two, 1922-1944, Ithaca, 1994, p. 102, no. 687.

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