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Study for Industrial Landscape
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This diptych painting is a 1:20 scale model for a wall painting completed in 1934 that originally measured 150 feet wide. It is executed on two panels hinged at the center to fold open.
Busch-Reisinger Museum
Carl Grossberg Sommerhausen (1934-1940) by inheritance; to Carl Grossberg Nachlass Sommerhausen sold; [through Galerie Hasenclever Munich 2018] to Merrill C. Berman New York gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum 2018.
Footnotes:
The provenance of this work appears in "Carl Grossberg: Industry and Architecture" (Munich: Galerie Michael Hasenclever 2018) n.p. [no. 7].
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum Gift of Merrill C. and Dalia S. Berman in honor of Lynette Roth
Title: Study for Industrial Landscape
Description:
This diptych painting is a 1:20 scale model for a wall painting completed in 1934 that originally measured 150 feet wide.
It is executed on two panels hinged at the center to fold open.
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