Study for The City of Light Consolidated Edison Company New York World's Fair 1939-1940 Pavilion Mural

Fernand Léger, French, 1881 - 1955

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1938-1939

Gouache and graphite on paper

Overall: 8 3/8 × 6 in. (21.3 × 15.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Wallace K. Harrison, Class of 1950H

D.973.11

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

20th century

Object Name

Drawing

Research Area

Drawing

Not on view

Inscriptions

Not signed.

Course History

COLT 73, 101, Spectacle and Exhibitionism, Michelle Warren, Winter 2012

Exhibition History

Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August-September 15, 1973.

Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 26, 1975-Janaury 4, 1976.

Drawings at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 27-November 27, 1988.

Fernand Leger, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, January 1974.

Thank You, Wallace K. Harrison, Jaffe-Friede Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 16-April 28, 1985.

Publication History

Jacquelyn Bass, Thank You, Wallace K. Harrison, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1985, p.40, no.15.

Yvonne Brunhammer, Fernand Leger: The Monumental Art, Milan: 5 Continents; Paris: ADAGP, 2005, p. 208, ill. p. 81, no. 62.

Provenance

Collected by Ellen Hunt Milton Harrison (1903-1995) and Wallace K. Harrison (1895-198); given to present collection, 1973.

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