Courtyard III

Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left): 1949 / Feininger; signed, dated, and inscribed (verso, stretcher): Lyonel Feininger / Courtyard III / Dec. 10, 1949

[Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York, no. 11644; until 1950]; Adelaide Milton de Groot, New York (1950–d. 1967; her bequest to MMA)

New York. Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin). "Lyonel Feininger," April 11–29, 1950, no. 5.

Pasadena Art Museum. "Lyonel Feininger 1871–1956, a Memorial Exhibition," April 26–May 29, 1966, no. 63 (lent by Adelaide Milton de Groot, New York).

Milwaukee Art Center. "Lyonel Feininger 1871–1956, a Memorial Exhibition," July 10–August 11, 1966, no. 63.

Baltimore Museum of Art. "Lyonel Feininger 1871–1956, a Memorial Exhibition," September 7–October 23, 1966, no. 63.

Haus der Kunst, Munich. "Lyonel Feininger 1871–1956," March 24–May 13, 1973, no. 160.

Kunsthaus Zürich. "Lyonel Feininger 1871–1956," May 25–July 22, 1973, no. 160.

Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano. "Lyonel Feininger: La Variante tematica e tecnica nello sviluppo del processo creativo," September 7–November 10, 1991.

Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. "Lyonel Feininger von Gelmeroda nach Manhattan: Retrospektive der Gemälde," July 3–October 11, 1998, no. 124.

Haus der Kunst, Munich. "Lyonel Feininger von Gelmeroda nach Manhattan: Retrospektive der Gemälde," November 1, 1998–January 24, 1999, no. 124.

Essen. Museum Folkwang. "Bauhaus Dessau–Chicago–New York," August 12–November 12, 2000, no. 127.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Cityscapes by Klee and Feininger," September 25, 2002–January 26, 2003, no catalogue.

Nagoya. Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art. "Lyonel Feininger Retrospective in Japan," October 17–December 23, 2008.

Sendai. Miyagi Museum of Art. "Lyonel Feininger Retrospective in Japan," January 10–March 1, 2009.

New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World," June 30–October 16, 2011, unnumbered cat. (fig. 185).

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. "Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World," January 20–May 13, 2012, unnumbered cat.

Madrid. Fundación Juan March. "Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)," February 17–May 28, 2017, no. 364.

Hans Hess. Lyonel Feininger. London, 1961, pp. 159, 164, 166, 346, pl. 63.

Julia Feininger in Hans Hess. Lyonel Feininger. London, 1961, p. 296, no. 494.

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