Harvard Art Museums > 1999.115: Untitled Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Untitled (Eva Hesse) , 1999.115,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 21, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/191381. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1999.115 People Eva Hesse, American (Hamburg, Germany 1936 - 1970 New York, NY) Title Untitled Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1963-64 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/191381 Physical Descriptions Medium Opaque watercolor and black ink on white wove paper Dimensions 15.8 × 15.2 cm (6 1/4 × 6 in.) Inscriptions and Marks gallery label: center top of frame backing board: Eva Hesse/UNTITLED/Gouache on paper/6 1/2 x 6"; 16.5 x 15.2 cm./HESS-0612 gallery label: center of frame backing board: EVA HESSE/Untitled, 1963-64/Gouache on paper/6 1/2 x 6 inches stamp: lower center of frame backing board, blue ink: ROBERT MILLER GALLERY/41 EAST 57th STREET/NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10022 gallery label: lower center of frame backing board: EVA HESSE/Untitled, 1963-64/gouache on paper/6-1/2 x 6 inches/EH99 3 inscription: lower center of backing board of frame, black ink: HESS-0612 stamp: l.l. corner of frame backing board, black ink: Image of two armadillos stamp: lower center of frame backing board, black ink: knight works inc./conservation matting & framing stamp: l.r. corner of frame backing board, black ink: DENGLAS/DENG [remaining text cut-off by masking tape] label: u.r. corner of frame backing board: red circular label Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California]. [Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York]. [Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1999. NOTE: Provenance information derived from gallery labels on the backing board of the frame. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund Copyright © The Estate of Eva Hesse. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Accession Year 1999 Object Number 1999.115 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Kathryn Ann Pasternak, "Sculptural Works by Eva Hesse: Inventiveness and Impermanence in Twentieth Century Art" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1985), Unpublished, pp. 1-167 passim Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 54, 133, repr. as fig. 3 on p. 54 [detail], pl. 63 on p. 133 Penley Knipe and Miriam Stewart, Material Matters (A Watercolor Treasury, Support, Reserve, Opacity, Intervention, Resist, Impermanence), American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, ed. Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2023), Pages 40-67, Figure 3, Page 54 Exhibition History Drawings from the 1960s: Jo Baer, Lee Bontecou, Eva Hesse and Agnes Martin, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, 04/30/1999 - 05/29/1999 A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1940 to 2000, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/2000 - 08/27/2000 Nominally Figured: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/08/2006 - 02/25/2007 American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
