In this wonderful watercolor, Paris (Newspaper Readers), 1908, Lyonel Feininger depicted Parisians consumed by the news of their own day. He based the work on sketches he had made. After completing the watercolor—which was in the Feininger family collection until now—he stayed with this scandalous subject and made an oil-on-canvas painting that same year, (Newspaper Readers I), 1908 (Moeller 042). Eight years later, in 1916, he made a second painting, also in oil, (Newspaper Readers III), 1916 (Moeller 175). In his paintings, Feininger retained the figures from his original watercolor, but he changed the setting from Paris to Weimar by lining the street in the background with the gabled houses typical of Thuringian architecture.