
Art Institute of Chicago
Manhattan Dawn
Lyonel Feininger · 1944
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; by descent to his wife Julia Feininger (died 1970), New York, 1956; Pat and Theodore Lux Feininger, Cambridge, MA., by 1959 [San Francisco 1959]; Mr. and Mrs. Andreas Feininger, New York, by 1961 [Hess 1961]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 27, 1972.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Lyonel Feininger/Marsden Hartley, October 24, 1944–January 14, 1945, p. 47, no cat. no.
- New York, Buchholz Gallery, Lyonel Feininger: Recent Paintings, Watercolors, January 29-February 23, 1946, no. 4, as Manhattan-Dawn.
- Possibly New York , Wildenstein and Company, Sixth Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures by Members of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, September 18–October 5, 1946, no. 13.
- Cleveland Museum of Art, The Work of Lyonel Feininger, November 2-December 9, 1951, p. 17, pl. XII, no. 32 (ill.).
- New York, Museum of Modern Art (organizer), Three Modern Painters: Beckmann-Feininger-Hartley; traveled to Memphis, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, November 1955; New Orleans, Tulane University, January 7-28, 1956; Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Public Library of Winston-Salem, February 12-March 4, 1956; Georgetown, Texas, Southwestern University, March 26-April 6, 1956; Louisville, Kentucky, J. B. Speed Art Museum, May 5-26, 1956; Exeter, New Hampshire, Phillips Exeter Academy, October
- 5-26, 1956; Winter Park, Florida, The Morse Gallery of Art, Rollins College, November 15-December 6, 1956; Richmond Artists Association, January 5-26, 1957; Moorhead, Minnesota, Concordia College, February 8-March 1, 1957; Gainesville, University of Florida, March 15-April 5, 1957; Savannah, Georgia, Telfair Academy of Arts, April 21-May 12, 1957; Chattanooga, Tennessee, Hunter Gallery of Art, May 26-June 16, 1957.
- San Francisco Museum of Art, Lyonel Feininger Memorial Exhibition, 1959-1961, November 5-December 13, 1959; traveled to Minneapolis Institute of Arts, January 5- February 7, 1960; Cleveland Museum of Art, February 18-March 20, 1960; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, April 8-May 8, 1960; and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 19-June 26, 1960, p. 16, no. 53.
- New York, Willard Gallery, Lyonel Feininger: Architecture, Paris-New York, March 1-31, 1961, cat. 4.
- Possibly Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Pine Arts, Lyonel Feininger April 18–May 26, 1968, cat. 14.
- New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Lyonel Feininger, April-May, 1969, p. 13, 75, cat. 58 (color ill.).
- Munich, Haus der Kunst, Lyonel Feininger, 1871-1956, March 24-May 13, 1973; traveled to Kunsthaus Zurich, May 25-July 22, 1973, p. 90, cat. 150 (ill.).
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Exiles and Emigres: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler, February 23-May 11, 1997; traveled to Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, June 19-September 7, 1997; and Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, October 9, 1997-January 4, 1998, pp. 299, 300, fig. 294 (color ill.), p. 403, cat. 51.
Literature
Published references
- Hans Hess, Lyonel Feininger (New York: Abrams, 1961), p. 149, pl. 21 (color ill.), 153, 291, no. 444.
- Welmoed Laanstra, curator, Art in Embassies Exhibition, exh. cat. (Washington D.C.: Art in Embassies, 2020), n.p.(color ill.).
- Ingrid Pfeiffer, ed., Lyonel Feininger: Retrospective, exh. cat. (Frankfurt/Munich: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt & Hirmer, 2023), 41, 43, 214 (color ill.), 263.
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