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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2000.93
People
Carl Andre, American (Quincy, MA born 1935)
Title
Dead Brown Owl
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1963
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/184594

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Carbon ink from carbon paper, typed, on cream wove paper
Dimensions
sight: 27.5 x 21.4 cm (10 13/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: @ carl andre © 1963

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, New York, 1989, 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
Copyright
© Carle Andre / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2000
Object Number
2000.93
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • James Cuno and Lisa Andersen, Minimalism and Post-Minimalism: Drawing Distinctions, exh. cat., Hood Museum of Art (Hanover, NH, 1990), cat. no. 20, pp. 52-53, repr.
  • Philip Van Keuren, ed., On Drawing: A Conversation with Werner H. Kramarsky, Connie Butler, and Harry Cooper, exh. cat., Pollock Gallery (Dallas, TX, 2000), p. 16 and under checklist [no cat. no. and n.p.]
  • 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. 150

Exhibition History

  • Minimalism and Post-Minimalism: Drawing Distinctions, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, 10/27/1990 - 12/16/1990
  • Contemporary American Drawings from the Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky Collection, Pollock Gallery, Dallas, 01/24/2000 - 03/26/2000

Verification Level

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