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Jesuits II

Date
1913
Material
Oil on canvas
Classification
Paintings
Collection
American Art
Current Location
On View, Gallery 213
Dimensions
28 3/4 x 23 5/8 in. (73 x 60 cm)
framed: 36 x 31 1/8 x 2 in. (91.4 x 79.1 x 5.1 cm)
Credit Line
Bequest of Morton D. May
Rights
Public Domain
Object Number
886:1983
NOTES
A woman in a yellow dress startles a group of Catholic Jesuit priests as they cross a gated churchyard. The humorous scene is evidence of Lyonel Feininger’s successful first career as a cartoonist and illustrator. Feininger was one of few American artists associated with Expressionism, a German modern art movement that appeared in the 1910s.

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