2001.149: Invitation #1
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2001.149
- People
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Christopher Wilmarth, American (Sonoma, CA 1943 - 1987 New York, NY)
- Title
- Invitation #1
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 7/1976
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/175333
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite, graphite wash, and staples on layered translucent vellum paper
- Dimensions
- sight: 55.8 x 59.9 cm (21 15/16 x 23 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: graphite, l.r.: CMW 7/76
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gallery label: verso of backing board of frame, u.r., paper, printed and typed: Hirschl & Adler Modern 851 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10021/
Artist: Christopher Wilmarth/
Title: Invitation #1 [underlined]/
Size and medium: 22 x 24 inches; Graphite, layered paper & staples
Date: 1976 No: M2606D -
label: verso of backing board, l.r., paper: [decriptive label]
W215/
Christopher Wilmarth/
Invitation #1/ [underlined]
1976
- inscription: verso of backing board, center, black ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: Invitation #1
- inscription: verso of backing board, l.r., graphite, handwritten: W215
- stamp: verso of frame backing board on descriptive label, l.r. corner, black ink: CMW
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Christopher Wilmarth, by descent; to Susan Wilmarth-Rabineau, New York, New York, 1987, sold; to the Harvard University Art Museums, through the [Nielsen Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts], 2001.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
- Copyright
- © Estate of Christopher Wilmarth
- Accession Year
- 2001
- Object Number
- 2001.149
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Christopher Wilmarth: Layers, Works from 1961-1984, auct. cat., Hirschl & Adler Modern Gallery (New York, NY, 1984), cat. no. 34, p. 47, repr.
- Edward Saywell, Christopher Wilmarth: Drawing into Sculpture, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2003), checklist no. 38 and p. 23, repr. color p. 65
- Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2001-2002 (Cambridge, MA, 2003), p. 27, repr.
- Steven Henry Madoff and Nancy Milford, Christopher Wilmarth: Light and Gravity, Princeton University Press (Princeton, New Jersey and Oxford, England, 2004), repr. pl. 75, p. 71
Exhibition History
- Christopher Wilmarth: Layers, Works from 1961-1984, Hirschl & Adler Modern Gallery, 03/17/1984 - 04/19/1984
- Christopher Wilmarth: Drawing into Sculpture, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/05/2003 - 06/29/2003
Subjects and Contexts
- Wilmarth
Verification Level
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