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- ↑ http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=6123 Achim Moeller at the Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
- ↑ http://feiningerproject.com Lyonel Feininger Project
- ↑ "The Mark Tobey Project LLC". Archived from the original on 2011-02-08. Retrieved 2011-09-01. Mark Tobey Project
- ↑ Moeller, Achim (ed). From Daumier to Matisse: Selections from the John C. Whitehead Collection. New York: Achim Moeller Fine Art, 2002
- ↑ Smith, Roberta (2011-07-21). "A Modernist Who Thrived at the Margins of Painting". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-02-07.
- ↑ Moeller, Achim (ed.). Feininger and Tobey: Years of friendship, 1944–1956. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2006
- ↑ Haskell, Barbara. Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011
