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Lyonel Feininger
An Automobile is Coming Over The Bridge1929

Not on view
Black and white photograph of multiple light sources against a pitch-black background, with a long horizontal streak of light and glowing orbs of varying sizes

Lyonel Feininger, An Automobile is Coming Over The Bridge, 1929, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Lyonel Feininger
United States, New York, New York City, also active Germany and France, 1871-1956
Title
An Automobile is Coming Over The Bridge
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1929
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 7 × 9 1/4 in. (17.78 × 23.5 cm) Primary support: 7 × 9 1/4 in. (17.78 × 23.5 cm) Secondary support: 11 × 12 5/16 in. (27.94 × 31.27 cm) Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.64 × 50.8 cm)
Credit Line
The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin
Accession Number
M.2008.40.768
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Salvesen, Britt. See the Light: Photography, Perception, Cognition: the Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2013.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn