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Group of Twelve Carved and Painted Objects: Eight Houses and Four Figures

1920s–40s
sculptor

Lyonel Feininger

(American, 1871–1956)
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Culture
America
Medium
painted wood
Credit Line
In memory of Leona E. Prasse, Gift of Ada Prasse Bittel 1985.170
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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Lyonel Feininger's son Andreas became a renowned photographer whose work is also in the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Description

Over the course of several decades, Lyonel Feininger made hundreds of sawn and painted wood toys that that he gifted to family and friends at Christmas. The artist once described the humorous vein in his work as the "childlike joyous and fantastic-bizarre Feininger world."

Group of Twelve Carved and Painted Objects: Eight Houses and Four Figures

1920s–40s

Lyonel Feininger

(American, 1871–1956)
America

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