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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.79
People
John Wesley, American (Los Angeles, California 1928 - 2022 New York, New York)
Title
Yellow Couch
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1986
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/175045

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
sight: 55.8 × 75.8 cm (21 15/16 × 29 13/16 in.)
mat: 60 × 80 cm (23 5/8 × 31 1/2 in.)
frame: 61.8 × 81.9 × 3.8 cm (24 5/16 × 32 1/4 × 1 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l. graphite: "YELLOW COUCH" / John Wesley 1986
  • blind stamp: lower right corner: VERITABLE PAPIER D'ARCHES [SATINE?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2001.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Barbara Fish Lee, Louise Haskell Daly Fund and William M. Prichard Memorial Fund
Copyright
© Copyright John Wesley
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
2001.79
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alanna Heiss, John Wesley, exh. cat., P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (New York, 2000), p. 14, repr. p. 13
  • Linda Norden, John Wesley: Love's Lust, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), n.p., fig. 1 (color)

Exhibition History

  • John Wesley: Love's Lust, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2001 - 02/25/2001

Verification Level

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