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Mill in Autumn

Artist Lyonel Feininger (American, 1871-1956)
Copy Right Holder Artists Rights Society (ARS)
Copy Right Holder VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Date1932
Dimensionsframe: 43 3/16 x 35 7/16 in. (109.7 x 90 cm)
Overall: 39 1/2 x 31 7/8 in. (100.3 x 81 cm)
Classification(s)
  • PAINTING
Credit LineBequest of Lawrence H. Bloedel, Class of 1923
Terms
  • autumn
  • mill
  • abstract
  • landscape
Object number77.9.3
Catalogue raisonnéHess #347
Inscribedl.l. in oil: Feininger/ 1932; verso u.c. on stretcher: [Pasadena Art Museum exhibition label]
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceMme. Galka E. Scheyer; to Buchholz Gallery; to Willard Gallery; to Lawrence H. Bloedel (Class of 1923), 1957; to present collection, 1977
Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles Art Association. "Loan Exhibition of International Art." Los Angeles, CA: Town House Gallery, November 15-December 15, 1937. (no.176). Checklist.

"Lyonel Feininger." New York, NY: Curt Valentin Gallery, March 11-29, 1941. (no.24). Catalogue.

"Lyonel Feininger." Grosse Pointe, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, The Russell A. Alger House, July-August, 1941. (no.24). Catalogue published by Golden Eagle Press.

"Lyonel Feininger / Marsden Hartley." New York, NY: The Museum of Modern Art, October 24, 1944-January 14, 1945. Catalogue. pp.7-13.

"An Exhibition of Works of Art Lent by the Alumni of Williams College." Williamstown, MA: Lawrence Art Museum, May 5-June 16, 1962. (no.26). Catalogue published by Harbor Press.

"Lyonel Feininger 1871-1956: A Memorial Exhibition." Pasadena, CA: Pasadena Art Museum, April 26-May 29, 1966, traveling through October 2. (no.38). Catalogue.

"Lyonel Feininger 1871-1956." Munich, Germany: Haus Der Kunst, March 24-May 13, 1973, traveling through July 22. (no.135). Catalogue.

"Second Williams Alumni Loan Exhibition." New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, April 1-24, 1976, traveling to Williams through June 13, 1976. (no.21).

"Selections from the Bloedel Collection." Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, September 11-November 15, 1983

"American Art from the Permanent Collection." Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, August 12, 1984-May 17, 1985. <40wks>.

"Highlights from the Permanent Collection." Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, October 19, 1986-March 8, 1987.

Nirk, Nora. "American Modernism: Highlights from the Permanent Collection." Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, June 3-September 4, 1989.

"American Modernism from Amherst and Williams Colleges." Amherst, MA: Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, October 20-December 17, 1989. (no.30). Brochure.

MacNary, Ann and Vivian Patterson and Carol Clark. "Highlights of American Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection." Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, February 23, 1991-January 17, 1993. (rotating works).

Imbriani, Susan. "American Landscapes from the Permanent Collection." Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, January 30-May 16, 1993.

"Lawrence Bloedel: Alumnus Patron." Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, July 10, 1993-August 14, 1994.

"Modernism: European & American Art 1900-1950 from the Permanent Collection." Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, January 29, 1994-July 16, 1995.

Mathews, Nancy Mowll. "Painting Changes: Prendergast and His Contemporaries, 1850-1950." Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, August 5, 1995-May 11, 1997. (rotating works).

Greenwood, Ann & Nancy M. Mathews. "Building Themes: Images of Architecture, 1870-1950 from the Permanent Collection." Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, December 16, 1995-August 4, 1996. (rotating works).

Mathews, Nancy Mowll. "Inventing the 20th Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection." Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, June 4, 1997- June 1999, extended through June 11, 2000. (rotating works).

"Lyonel Feininger. Von Gelmeroda nach Manhattan." Berlin, Germany: Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatiche Museen zu Berlin, July 3-October 11, 1998, traveling thru Jan. 24, 1999. (no.100). Catalogue published by Verlag, Berlin.

"The Lines of Early Modernism: American Works from the Collection", Williams College Museum of Art, August 12-December 17, 2000.

"Celebrating 75 Years: Masterpieces from the Collection", Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, February 3-June 30, 2001

"Celebrating 75 Years - American Dreams: American Art Before 1950 in the Williams College Museum of Art." Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, June 30, 2001 thru an extended period. (no.44) Catalogue published by Hudson Hills.

"American Dreams: American Art Before 1950 in the Williams College Museum of Art." (Reinstallation). Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, April 12, 2003-June 12, 2005.

Karmel, Pepe. (curator). "Picasso e la sua epoca: Donazioni a Musei Americani.". Spain & Italy: Fundacíon Marcelino Botín, Santander and Fondazione Memmo, Roma, July 22-September 30, 2004, traveling thru January 8, 2005. Catalogue in Spanish and Italian.

Teaching events
Sally Shafto, MCLA Contemporary Art, s22
Gelmeroda
Lyonel Feininger
1920
Der Anbruch, II.2. (cover)
Lyonel Feininger
January 1919
Fishing Boats
Lyonel Feininger
1921
Sonnenaufgang (Sunrise)
Lyonel Feininger
1911