Cathedral

Maker and role
Artist: Lyonel Feininger, American, 1871-1956
Year
1919

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Details

Media/materials
Woodcut
Measurements
image, 7 1/16 x 4 3/4in (17.9 x 12.1cm)
Credit line
Museum purchase
Accession number
1968.2
Object type
Prints
Department
Prints and Drawings
Location
Not on view
Further information
Created at the influential Bauhaus school of crafts and fine arts in Germany, this woodcut presents the artist's view of a cathedral of a utopian future. The print exists in only two impressions and on the McNay's version, the artist wrote "rare! 2 prints only."
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ ADAGP, Paris
Subject period
Expressionist
American Modernist
Maker

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Subject category

Americas/United States Artistic Devices and Terms/stylization Artistic Devices and Terms/geometric Structures/churches/temples Shapes and Objects/stars Color/black

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