- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1978.527
- People
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Paul Klee, Swiss (Münchenbuchsee near Bern, Switzerland 1879 - 1940 Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland)
- Title
- Botanical High Culture
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1938
- Culture
- Swiss
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/295220
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Oil paint and graphite over gesso on paper mounted on board
- Dimensions
- actual: 33.4 x 46.5 cm (13 1/8 x 18 5/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.l.: Klee
- Provenance
- [Curt Valentin, Buchholz, Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1945, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1978.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
- Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Accession Year
- 1978
- Object Number
- 1978.527
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 85, fig. 7 (color), pp. 47, 75, 371, 373, 380
- Exhibition History
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20th Century Abstract Painting and Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 04/16/1947 - 05/18/1947
Klee and Kandinsky: Works from the Harvard Collection and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/17/1981
Paul Klee, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/17/1993 - 06/13/1993
Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
- Subjects and Contexts
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The Bauhaus
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