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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2000.130
People
Catherine Murphy, American (Cambridge, MA born 1946)
Title
Ceiling Fixture
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1994
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/184460

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
irregular: 66.3 x 55 cm (26 1/8 x 21 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • exhibition label: verso of frame backing board, u.r., paper: Whitney Museum of American Art
    945 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10021
    Catherine Murphy
    Ceiling Fixture, 1994
    Graphite on paper
    22 3/16 X 18 5/16
    Collection of Sarah-Ann and Werner Kramarsky
    1995 Biennial
    March 23-June 25th, 1995

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Lennon, Weinberg Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, New York, 1994, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2000.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky
Accession Year
2000
Object Number
2000.130
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Klaus Kertess, 1995 Biennial Exhibition, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1995), no cat. no., p. 262
  • John Yau, "Reality to Infinity: The Drawings of Catherine Murphy", Art on Paper (January 2001 - February 2001), vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 69-73, p. 73, repr. on p. 69
  • Amy Eshoo, ed., 560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006, Fifth Floor Foundation and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2008), p. 154
  • John Yau, Catherine Murphy, Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc. and Peter Freeman, Inc. (New York, 2016), p. 126, ill.

Exhibition History

  • 1995 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 03/23/1995 - 06/25/1995
  • Nominally Figured: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/08/2006 - 02/25/2007

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