Dream Aboard (Traum zu Schiff)
Paul Klee, Swiss, 1879 - 1940
1915
Ink on paper
Sheet: 9 5/8 × 6 3/16 in. (24.4 × 15.7 cm)
Mount: 9 7/16 × 12 1/2 in. (24 × 31.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Elizabeth E. Craig, Class of 1944W
D.2002.30.1
Geography
Place Made: Switzerland, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in ink, in image, lower left: Klee; inscribed, in ink, on mount, lower left: 1915 106 traum zu Schiff.; inscribed, on reverse, above center, in brown ink: Eisa.Fun: / [illeg.] whnya[?] / Nambory.Westerfeld.8[?]
Course History
FREN 25, Introduction to French Literature and Culture IV: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Aimee Kilbane, Spring 2012
FREN 25, Introduction to French Literature and Culture IV: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Aimee Kilbane, Spring 2012
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2020
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2020
GERM 003, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Fall 2020
GERM 003, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Fall 2020
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Winter 2021
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2021
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2021
Exhibition History
European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 2008-March 8, 2009.
Rococo to Modernism: European Drawings and Watercolors from the Permanent Collection and Dartmouth's Alumni, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-May 30, 2004.
The Decade of Modernism: Selections from 1910-1919, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 11-July 20, 2003.
Publication History
T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 200-201, ill. p.200, no. 126.
Published References
Der Sturm, 1916, ill. p. 1; Walden, 1917, ill. p. 87; Klee 1918, ill. p. 13; Walden, 1918, ill. p. 87; Walden, 1924, ill. s. 75; Schreyer, 1931, p. 140; ?berwasser, 1965, p. 466; Werckmeister 1985, p. 61 .ill.; Porter Aichele 1986, p. 463; Werckmeister. 1989, p. 68f, 85, 107, 281, Anm. 73 ill; DeLamater, 1991, p. 185 Anm. 33; Ausstellungen, Berlin, 1916, b. no. 28; Auktionen: Stuttgart, Kunstkabinett, 29.11.-1.12.1955, no. 1379 ill.
Provenance
Sold through Walden, March 1916; Lothar Schreyer, Hamburg, Germany, until 1955; Saidenberg Gallery, Inc., New York, 1955; sold to Elizabeth E. and E. William Craig, Jr., Dayton, Ohio, 1956; given to present collection, 2002.
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