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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2002.148
People
Max Arthur Cohn, American (England 1903 - 1998 New York, N.Y.)
Title
Overhead Tracks
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1936
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/142043

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and graphite on white wove watercolor paper
Dimensions
38.4 x 50.6 cm (15 1/8 x 19 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower left, watercolor: M A Cohn / 1936
  • inscription: verso, graphite, upper left: OVERHEAD TRACKS / 1936 - 1

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jane Cohn Waldbaum and Steven L. Morse, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jane Cohn Waldbaum and Steven L. Morse
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
2002.148
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
On the verso of the full sheet, there is a pale watercolor wash indication of the basis of a pictorial composition -- not the same composition that is on the recto. Perhaps the artist began a watercolor that he chose not to finish, and turned the sheet over to begin anew.

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