1996.26: Reclining Woman

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1996.26

People

Willem de Kooning, American (Rotterdam, Netherlands 1904 - 1997 East Hampton, NY)

Title

Reclining Woman

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1948-1949

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305770

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil, graphite, and black and green crayon on cream illustration board

Dimensions

40.4 x 43.4 cm (15 7/8 x 17 1/16 in.)
image: 31.9 x 41.7 cm (12 9/16 x 16 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.r.: de Kooning
• inscription: Inscr. below image, graphite: NO 15 mat 3" on sides / 2" on top and bottom / ivory / small frame; lower right, blue ballpoint: op-16 1/4 x 12 7/16
• gallery label: back of frame: #3622

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1956, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1996.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell

Copyright

© The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Accession Year

1996

Object Number

1996.26

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Timothy Anglin Burgard, American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1994), p. 12, cat. 73
• Modern Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan, 1999), cat. 64, ill.
• Linda Norden, John Wesley: Love's Lust, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), n.p.
• Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), pp. 76, 108, 120, 371, 376, cat. 27, fig. 58, ill.
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist

Exhibition History

• American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/01/1994 - 12/30/1994
• 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
• John Wesley: Love's Lust, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2001 - 02/25/2001
• Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
• HAA 1 Survey Course: Survey of World Art: Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/23/2005 - 07/31/2005
• American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006
• HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 08 Rotation 3), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/20/2008 - 02/08/2009
• American Art and Modernity, 1865–1965, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2012 - 01/19/2013

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