Years before his 1919 appointment as a printmaking master at the Bauhaus, Lyonel Feininger was an influential cartoonist for American newspapers. On a page of seemingly dashed-off pencil drawings, he relayed the sequential movements of a girl whose oversized feet signal the awkward physicality of adolescence.
Lyonel Feininger (American-German, 1871–-1956), Three Studies of a School Girl Playing Diabolo, 1907, graphite on hole-punched paper. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Colin, 1974.67:5. © Lyonel Feininger / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York