Ships Along a Rocky Coast
1920
Lyonel Feininger
Artist, American, 1871 - 1956
Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 12.07 × 15.4 cm (4 3/4 × 6 1/16 in.)
sheet: 21.91 × 28.1 cm (8 5/8 × 11 1/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2015.19.1026
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Catalogue Raisonné
Prasse 1972, no. W213
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
the artist's estate; (Associated American Artists, New York, 1964); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1964; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1964
Lyonel Feininger: Ships and Seas, Associated American Artists, New York, 1964, no. 72, repro
1981
From Craft to Art: Wood Engraving in the 20th Century, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981, no. 13
1982
Modernist Watercolors, Prints and Drawings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 13
Bibliography
1972
Prasse, Leona E. Lyonel Feininger: A Definitive Catlogue of His Graphic Work: Etchings, Lithographs, Woodcuts. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972. p. 211, no. W213.
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite: Lyonel Feininger; lower left in graphite by unknown hand: X; lower center in graphite by unknown hand: 2021 / 1920-21 [partially erased]
Wikidata ID
Q77008595