Monument to the Artist's Father

Artist: Kurt Schwitters (German, 1887–1948)

Medium

Plywood painted white

Dimensions

49 15/16 × 10 1/2 × 16 1/16 in. (126.9 × 26.6 × 40.8 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the Estate of Katherine S. Dreier

Accession Number

1953.6.7

Culture
Period

20th century

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Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Bibliography
  • Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 204, ill.
  • Robert L. Herbert, Eleanor S. Apter, and Elise K. Kenney, The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984), 602, no. 625, ill.
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