2000.49: Untitled
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2000.49
- People
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Lee Bontecou, American (Providence, Rhode Island 1931 - 2022 Cedar Key, Florida)
- Title
- Untitled
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1970
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/185889
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 73.7 x 58.6 cm (29 x 23 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: graphite, l.r.: Bontecou 1970
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Private Collector, Los Angeles, California. [Charles M. Young, Glastonbury, Connecticut], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2000.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
- Accession Year
- 2000
- Object Number
- 2000.49
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Elizabeth A. T. Smith and Donna De Salvo, Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and UCLA Hammer Museum (Chicago and Los Angeles, 2003), repr. color pl. 97, p. 98 [also repr. color p. 229 within the checklist]
- Karen Wright, "(Re)Birth of a Star: Lee Bontecou is Back with a Bang", Modern Painters (Summer 2004), pp. 66-71, ill. p. 71
Exhibition History
- Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 10/05/2003 - 01/11/2004; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, 02/14/2004 - 05/30/2004; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 07/28/2004 - 09/27/2004
- Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/12/2025 - 01/18/2026
Verification Level
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