Ships Along a Rocky Coast, 1920

Not on View

Medium

woodcut in black on wove paper

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)

Catalogue Raisonné

Prasse 1972, no. W213

Accession Number

2015.19.1026

Artists / Makers

Lyonel Feininger (artist) American, 1871 - 1956

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Inscription

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]

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

Associated American Artists
Corcoran Gallery of Art

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.