Ships Along a Rocky Coast
Lyonel Feininger
1920
Medium
woodcut in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 12.07 × 15.4 cm (4 3/4 × 6 1/16 in.) sheet: 21.91 × 28.1 cm (8 5/8 × 11 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)
Accession Number
2015.19.1026
About the Artist
Lyonel Feininger
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) was born in New York City to German-American parents who were accomplished musicians. At sixteen he was sent to Hamburg to pursue musical training, but upon arriving in Germany he turned instead to visual art, enrolling in the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule in Hamburg and subsequently at the Königliche Akademie der Künste in Berlin, where he studied painting. He subsequently...