These compositions Feininger called his "children's drawings," brilliantly colored watercolors scrawled with the agitated and tremulous lines of his early etchings � a striking contrast to the precise, razor-sharp lines that define the majority of his work.
Details
- Artist Name: Lyonel Feininger (American, 1871-1956)
- Title: Ascending Balloon
- Date: 1920
- Medium: Watercolor and India ink on laid paper
- Dimensions: comp: 7-7/8 x 8-3/4 in. (20.0 x 22.2 cm); sheet: 9-1/4 x 11-7/8 in. (23.5 x 30.2 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.221
- Copyright: © Lyonel Feininger / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Object Information
Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee
- California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1941-04-08 to 1941-04-22
American Art: 1918-1942
Lyonel Feininger Retrospective
Permanent Collection Exhibition
Selections from the Permanent Collection
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1971-07-13 to 1971-09-19
Contemporary German Watercolor Painting
- California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1936-06-06 to 1936-08-01
The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World
- Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14
Selections from the Galka E. Scheyer Collection
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1970-09-08 to 1970-12-17
The Galka E. Scheyer Collection
- Mills College Art Gallery, 1961-01-10 to 1961-02-19
Maven of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in California
- Norton Simon Museum, 2017-04-07 to 2017-09-25
Lyonel Feininger 1871-1956: A Memorial Exhibition
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1966-04-26 to 1966-05-29
- Milwaukee Art Center, 1966-07-10 to 1966-08-11
- Baltimore Museum of Art, 1966-09-07 to 1966-10-23
Seascape/Cityscape: The Art of Lyonel Feininger
- Norton Simon Museum, 1993-07-15 to 1994-01-09
The Blue Four
Selections from the Galka E. Scheyer Blue Four Collection
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-10-02 to 1973-11-18
European Modernists
- Los Angeles, California School of Fine Arts, 1927-04 to ?-
Thirty European Modernists
- Oakland Art Gallery, 1928-01-04 to 1928-01-29
Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31
Selections from Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee. The Blue Four Galka E. Scheyer Collection
- Seattle Art Museum, 1956-10-10 to 1956-11-04
- Portland, Portland Art Museum, 1956-11-08 to 1956-11-30
- , 1957-01-01 to 1957-01-31
- Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, 1957-03-02 to 1957-04-01
- Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, 1957-11-15 to 1957-12-15
- San Francisco Museum of Art, 1958-01-14 to 1958-02-23
- Vancouver Art Gallery, 1956-07 to 1956-08-31
Die Blaue Vier: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee in der Neuen Welt
- Kunstmuseum Bern, 1997-12-05 to 1998-03-01
- Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, 1998-03-28 to 1998-06-28
My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four
- Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14
- Lyonel Feininger, p. 17
- Haas, Robert B., Du, p. 22
- The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 2 pp. 19, 21
- The Blue Four. Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Klee in the New World, 1997, no. 6 pp. 283, 337
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 023 pp. 42-44
- Gilbert Holzgang, Galka Scheyer : Ein Leben für Kunst und Kreativität, 2023, p. 124 (ill.)
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