Lighthouse I

Artist Lyonel Feininger American, 1871 - 1956

Date1947

MediumWatercolor, ink, wove watercolor paper

DimensionsFrame Dimensions: 16 1/2 × 18 1/2 × 1 3/4 in. (41.9 × 47 × 4.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift to The Murray Collection in memory of Terry A. Murray

Object number1991.2.7

On View

Not on view

Collections

Modern and Contemporary Art
Works on Paper

SignedLL. "Feininger" black ink, printed in upper and lower case letters

InscribedLR in black ink "24 VI [?] 47" possibly 24 June, 1947?

DescriptionDrawn with fine black ink lines that have what appears to be a deliberate broken-line effect. There are rectilinear assemblages of lines at the right that probably indicate buildings on a coastline, possibly the lightkeeper's house. To the left of the upper center of the image are three long vertical lines with others atop it, this may be the lighthouse of the title.

The watercolor in blue, and blue-black is feathered out and seems to indicate a thick fog. It has a northern lights/ aurora borealis-like effect.

Frame of the period. Worm-holed oak rubbed with a grey stain or paint reminiscent of driftwood. Half-round molded fore-edge and beveled outward from front to back.Exhibition HistoryChecklist number 10, "The Murray Collection: Art of the Twentieth Century, Selections from the Permanent Collection," The Hyde Collection, Dec. 4, 1993-Feb. 20, 1994.

"Select Drawings from the Permanent Collection," Hoopes Gallery, The Hyde Collection, Nov. 14, 1998 - Jan. 24, 1999.

Rotunda Gallery, The Hyde Collection, Oct. 10, 2001- Mar. 22, 2002.

"Director's Choice: Focus on Modernism." Hoopes Gallery. The Hyde Collection. April 5- September 14, 2008.

"Modern Art: From Bauhaus to Black Mountain College", Hoopes Gallery, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, June 29, 2019-September 15, 2019ProvenanceNew York, NY, Jane S. Murray
1991, Glens Falls, NY, The Hyde Collection Trust