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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2000.54
People
Bruce Conner, American (McPherson, Kansas 1933 - 2008 San Francisco)
Title
Music Room
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1966
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/185508

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Wood engraving and Duco Cement collage
Technique
Collage
Dimensions
12.9 x 19 cm (5 1/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso, graphite, l.c.: BRUCE CONNER
  • gallery label: [at 14 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA 94108]: typed description of drawing, including: Bruce Conner / Music Room / Paper Collage w/ Duco Cement / 1966 / 5 1/8" x 7 1/2"; upper right: BCR96003
  • gallery label: typed description: Bruce Conner / engraving collage / Music Room, 1966, SF; in graphite: #5407
  • label: California Resale Royalties Act, with text
  • inscription: verso of collage, lower center, graphite, in artist's hand: Bruce Conner DUCO CEMENT + / ENGRAVING COLLAGE / MUSIC ROOM [underlined] 1966 SAN FRANCISCO
  • inscription: cream mounting card, graphite, in artist's hand: Music Room / 1966 San Francisco / Bruce Conner
  • inscription: black construction paper mount, bottom edge, graphite, in artist's hand: BRUCE CONNER - MUSIC ROOM - 1966 - DUCO CEMENT + ENGRAVING COLLAGE - 5 1/8 X 7 1/2 -

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Susan Inglett, I.C. Editions, Inc., New York, New York], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2000.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Conner Family Trust, San Francisco / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2000
Object Number
2000.54
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The collage elements are applied to a page probably taken from a 19th-century magazine (including text and a chess diagram). The collage sheet is attached to cream card of approximately the same size. Both are attached to a larger piece of black cardboard (19.5 x 26.5 cm.).

Publication History

  • Rudolf Frieling and Gary Garrels, ed., Bruce Conner: It's All True, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, 2016), p. 174, fig. 142, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Bruce Conner: Wood Engraving Collages 1961 to 1996, I. C. Editions, Inc., New York, 04/07/2000 - 05/20/2000
  • Nominally Figured: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/08/2006 - 02/25/2007
  • Bruce Conner: It's All True, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 07/03/2016 - 10/02/2016; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 10/29/2016 - 01/22/2017

Verification Level

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