- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2007.73
- People
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Charles White, American (1918 - 1979)
- Title
- Bessie Smith
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1950
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/318436
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Linocut printed in green and black on cream imitation Japan paper
- Technique
- Linocut
- Dimensions
- image: 30.5 x 22.8 cm (12 x 9 in.)
sheet: 44.5 x 30.4 cm (17 1/2 x 11 15/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r. margin estate stamp in ink: Charles White
- inscription: lower margin in graphite pencil: "Bessie" 1954 State II 5/5 / All four states in edition of 16.
- stamp: lower right margin, estate stamp, in ink: Charles White
- Provenance
- [Swann Galleries, New York], sold; to the Fogg Art Museum, 2007.
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- Gedeon Eb6
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of William S. Lieberman, by exchange
- Copyright
- © The Charles White Archives
- Accession Year
- 2007
- Object Number
- 2007.73
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Thomas W. Lentz, ed., Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2006-7, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 2008), p. 26, ill.
Sarah Kelly Oehler and Esther Adler, ed., Charles White: A Retrospective, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, New Haven and London, 2018), p. 103, pl. 36, cat. no. 50, ill. (color)
- Exhibition History
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Charles White: A Retrospective, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 06/08/2018 - 09/03/2018; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 10/07/2018 - 01/13/2019
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