Aerial view of buildings within a New York City block whose features and details are largely vague and undefined.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

Graphite drawing depicting an aerial view of a New York City block. Multiple buildings stand within the block, though the exact number is hard to determine. Apart from the buildings which are stark white, much of the remaining drawing is dark and undefined, possibly portraying the shells of unfinished buildings or unpopulated streets. Squares and rectangles dominate the piece as the grid-like nature of the block and sharp angled construction of the buildings are the most obvious and distinct characteristics of the drawing.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2000.113
People
Elise Kaufman, American (Manhasset, NY born 1961)
Title
Study for Urban Plan
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1996
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/184726

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on white translucent vellum paper
Dimensions
21.7 x 25.2 cm (8 9/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: EK 96
  • label: On backing, removed: Werner Kramarsky / 560 Broadway New York, NY 10012 / (212) 966-6601 / Elise Kaufman / Study for Urban Plan / 1996, graphite on mylar / 8 1/2 x 10" / 2810

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Elise Kaufman, New York, New York, sold; to Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, gift; to 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
2000.113
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 153

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