Manhattan Dawn

Modern Art

1944

Lyonel Feininger
American, worked in Germany, 1871–1956

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Lyonel Feininger
Title: Manhattan Dawn
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1944
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: signed upper right: Feininger signed, dated and titled on verso stretcher: Lyonel Feininger, 1944, MANHATTAN DAWN
Dimensions: Without frame: 89.3 × 71.5 cm (35 3/16 × 28 3/16 in.); 88.9 × 75.9 cm (35 × 29 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Andreas Feininger
Reference Number: 1972.1208
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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.

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.
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art, October 28 2002-January 13, 2003, p. 58, 59 (color i ll.), no cat. no.
Shanghai Museum, Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1965–1945, September 28, 2018-January 6, 2019.
Brussels, United States Embassy, Whitlock Hall, Art in Embassies Exhibition, May 15, 2019–Dec 13, 2020, no cat. no.
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Lyonel Feininger Retrospective, Oct. 27, 2023–Feb. 18, 2024, no cat. no.

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.

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