Divers
Fernand Léger, French, 1881 - 1955
1942
Graphite, gouache and watercolor on wove paper
Overall: 29 7/8 × 22 in. (75.9 × 55.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Wallace K. Harrison, Class of 1950H
W.971.40
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated lower right: F. L. 42
Exhibition History
20th Century Masters from the Permanent Collection, Barrows Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 3-March 5, 1978.
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-January 4, 1976.
Fernand Leger, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, January 1-31, 1974.
Fernand Leger: Paris-New York, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, June 1-September 7, 2008.
New York, New York, 1962.
Paris, France, 1956.
Thank You, Wallace K. Harrison, Jaffe Hall, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 16-April 28, 1985.
The Olympics of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, January 13-March 2, 1980.
Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 30-September 21, 1975.
Publication History
Jacquelyn Bass, Thank You, Wallace K. Harrison, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1985, p. 43, no. 19.
Franklin W. Robinson, [et al.], Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Hanover, N.H.: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1975, pp. 41-42.
Fernand Leger, Musee Cantini, Marseille, 1966.
Werner Haftman, Painting in the Twentieth Century, New York: Praeger, 1965.
Yvonne Brunhammer, Fernand Leger: The Monumental Art, Milan: 5 Continents; Paris: ADAGP, 2005, p. 209, ill. p. 93, no. 80.
Philippe Buttner, et al., Fernand Leger: Paris-New York, Ostfildern, Germany: Fondation Beyeler, 2008, 208 pp., ill. p. 108.
Provenance
Collected by Ellen Hunt Milton Harrison (1903-1995) and Wallace K. Harrison (1895-198); given to present collection, 1971.
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