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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Fifth Avenue, New York, Looking Eastward. Verso: Sketch of the same subject

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Lyonel Feininger
1871-1956

Fifth Avenue, New York, Looking Eastward. Verso: Sketch of the same subject

1937
4 30/32 x 3 7/8 inches (125 x 99 mm)
Blue, brown, black and yellow crayon on wove paper; verso: black crayon.
1974.67:12

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Colin.

Notes
Watermark: none.
The Sketch was developed into the painting "Manhattan I", Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Inscriptions/Markings
Dated by the artist in black chalk along left edge, "17 10 37"; later inscribed by the artist in blue ballpoint pen along lower edge, "these notes were taken from the top of fifth avenue bus, during transport through the avenue, looking eastward". Inscribed on verso in graphite at lower right, "2/33".
Classification
Century Drawings