The Lamp of Sleep Yale University Art Gallery

January 13, 1927

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

Medium: Opaque and transparent watercolor
Dimensions: framed: 15 5/8 × 18 3/4 × 3/4 in. (39.7 × 47.6 × 1.9 cm)
sight in frame: 9 1/2 × 12 11/16 in. (24.2 × 32.3 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Denise and George Hopper Fitch, B.A. 1932
Accession Number: 2005.146.1
Geography: Made in United States
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Drawings
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Provenance

From the Estate of Oscar Bluemner (#18548); purchased by George Hopper Fitch at the Davis Gallery, New York, May 1971

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

watercolors

Inscriptions

Inscribed on backboard of original frame, in ink: #6 "the Lamp of Sleep / watercolor painting (synthetic gouache) / Oscar Bluemner 1927. 102 Plain [?]. South Braintree, Mass. / Put under colorless crystal glass / cut this paper at pencil lines and replace with glue / do not hang in sun light

Signed

Signed at LL: BLUMNER

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