About This Artwork

Lyonel Feininger
American, 1871-1956

Eichelborn I, 1913

Pen and black ink, over charcoal, on tan laid paper
240 x 316 mm
Signed recto, lower left, in pen and black ink: "Feininger"; inscribed recto, lower center, in pen and black ink: "Eichelborn I"; lower right, in pen and black ink: "July 10th, 1913"; inscribed verso, center, in graphite: "Schwarz Passep"
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, 1998.711

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Wellesley College Art Museum, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley MA., April 2–25, 1976, no. 1268.14.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, January 26–April 27, 1980.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings," June 11– September 7, 1999, checklist 15 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 205, cat. 152 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper," March 24-September 13, 2009, no cat.

Publication History

Das Kunstblatt (Weimar, 1917), p. 68ff, pl. 19.

Stuttgarter kunstkabinett, Sale Catalogue (May 5, 1962) lot 660.

Ownership History

Sold, R. M. Light and Company, Boston, Mass., to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, June 19, 1962; given to the Art Institute, 1998.