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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2002.135
People
Hedda Sterne, American (Bucharest, Romania 1910 - 2011 New York, NY)
Title
Pink I
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1952
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/144058

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, ink, and resist on cream wove paper
Dimensions
33.5 x 50.1 cm (13 3/16 x 19 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Blue ink, u.l.: Hedda Sterne 1952
  • inscription: verso, center right, blue ink, in artist's hand: Pink /
    I
  • inscription: verso, center right, brown colored pencil: G12
  • inscription: verso, u.l. corner, graphite: 150 [written upside down]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[G. W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, New York], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Hedda Sterne / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
2002.135
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 61-62, 126, repr. as fig. 4 on p. 62 [detail], pl. 57 on p. 126
  • Penley Knipe and Miriam Stewart, Material Matters (A Watercolor Treasury, Support, Reserve, Opacity, Intervention, Resist, Impermanence), American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, ed. Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2023), Pages 40-67, Figure 4, Page 62

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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