Study for a Proposed Mural for the General Assembly of the United Nations, New York

Fernand Léger, French, 1881 - 1955

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about 1952-1955

Gouache and watercolor on laid paper

Image: 9 15/16 × 13 1/8 in. (25.2 × 33.4 cm)

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

W.966.6.6

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

20th century

Object Name

Watercolor

Research Area

Watercolor

Not on view

Inscriptions

Not signed.

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, November 25, 1975-January 4, 1976.

Fernand Leger, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, January 1-31, 1974.

Thank You, Wallace K. Harrison, Jaffe Hall, 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. 52, no. 27.

Yvonne Brunhammer, Fernand Leger: The Monumental Art, Milan: 5 Continents; Paris: ADAGP, 2005, p. 211, ill. p. 121, no. 129.

Provenance

Collected by Ellen Hunt Milton Harrison (1903-1995) and Wallace K. Harrison (1895-198); given to present collection, 1966.

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