A Group of Houses and Figures

Contemporary Art

c. 1949

Lyonel Feininger
American, 1871–1956

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Lyonel Feininger
Title: A Group of Houses and Figures
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.: 1944–1954
Medium: painted wood
Dimensions: Dimensions variable
Credit Line: Bequest of Maxine Kunstadter
Reference Number: 1978.411a-c
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Reinhold Heller, “Lyonel Feininger: Awareness, Recollection, and Nostalgia” (exh. cat.). Chicago: University of Chicago, 1992.
Art Institute of Chicago, Poetics of Scale: Small-Sized Works from the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, exh. checklist (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), n.p., cat. 14 (ill.).

Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, “Lyonel Feininger: Awareness, Recollection, and Nostalgia,” Dec. 12, 1992–Mar. 28, 1993.
Art Institute of Chicago, Poetics of Scale, Small-Sized Works from the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, June 5–Aug. 24, 2003, cat. 14.
Boston, Institute for Contemporary Art, “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957,” Dec. 7, 2015–Jan. 24, 2015; traveled to Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Feb. 21-May 15, 2016, and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Sept. 17, 2016–Jan. 1, 2017.

Maxine Kunstadter, Chicago, by 1978; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1978.

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