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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.50
People
Robert Motherwell, American (Aberdeen, WA 1915 - 1991 Provincetown, MA)
Title
Collage No. 1
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1945
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229312

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor, ink, metallic paint, pasted wood veneer, felted paper, and cut papers on paperboard
Technique
Collage
Dimensions
sight: 54.9 × 37.1 cm (21 5/8 × 14 5/8 in.)
frame: 71.6 × 53.7 × 5.1 cm (28 3/16 × 21 1/8 × 2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: Motherwell

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Copyright
© Dedalus Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
1949.50
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, reproduced in color fig. 89, p. 93
  • Timothy Standring, [Review] "American Watercolors, 1880-1990: Into the Light", The Burlington Magazine (August 2023), 165, pp. 908-911, p. 910
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 52 on p. 121

Exhibition History

  • National Exhibition, Boston Arts Festival, Boston, 06/01/1957 - 09/01/1957
  • New York School: From the First Generation, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1975 - 01/06/1976
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000
  • American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

Verification Level

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