
Art Institute of Chicago
Village Street
Lyonel Feininger · 1927/29
Provenance
Ownership history
- Buchholz Gallery, New York, by 1944 [New York 1944]. Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, by December 29,1954 [correspondence in curatorial file]. Sold to Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Kunstadter, Chicago. Given by them to the Art Institute, March 18, 1955.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Berlin, National Galerie, Lyonel Feininger, September 19, 1931–January 1932, cat. no. 92.
- New York, Buchholz Gallery and Willard Gallery, Lyonel Feininger, March 11-29, 1941, n.p., no. 16.
- Detroit, Institute of Arts, Lyonel Feininger, July-August 1941, n.p., no. 16.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Lyonel Feininger–Marsden Hartley, October 25, 1944–January 11, 1945, p. 46.
- New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Lyonel Feininger, March 18-April 12, 1952, n.p., (ill.) no. 10.
- Tokyo, ASAHI Shimbun, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago, pp. 37, 120–21 (ill.) no. 36; traveled to Nagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, April 20, 1994–May 29, 1995; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994: Yokohama Museum of Art, August 6 1994–September 25, 1994.
Literature
Published references
- Museum of Modern Art, Lyonel Feininger-Marsden Hartley (New York, 1944), p. 46.
- Katharine Kuh, Art Has Many Faces: The Nature of Art Presented Visually, (New York, 1951) pp. n.p. (index), 59 (ill.) plate 94.
- Hans Hess, Lyonel Feininger (New York: n.d. [1961]), p. 277 (ill.), fig. 312.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 161, 381 (ill.).
- “The Beauty of America in Great American Art,” Country Beautiful 4 (1965), pp. 102–3 (ill.).
- John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1970), pp. 271 (ill.), 280.
- Marjorie Elliott Bevlin, Design Through Discovery, (New York, 1980)
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