2005.150: Alpspitze

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2005.150

People

Marsden Hartley, American (Lewiston, ME 1877 - 1943 Ellsworth, ME)

Title

Alpspitze

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

October 28, 1933

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/19162

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red ink on cream wove paper

Dimensions

26.7 x 35.9 cm (10 1/2 x 14 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: red ink, l.l.: Alp spitze / Marsden Hartley / Oct 28 33
• inscription: back of frame, graphite: Hartley / Alps Spitze
• inscription: on cardboard backing, graphite: 10034 / BORGENICHT

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Peter Deitsch Original Prints-Drawings, New York, New York]. Richard B. Sisson, New York City and Cuba, New York, before 1965, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2005.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Richard B. Sisson and through the generosity of Anthony and Celeste Meier

Accession Year

2005

Object Number

2005.150

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

sketchbook page; unusual in that paper is perforated on three edges

Publication History

• Collecting Privately, exh. cat., Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick, Maine, 1965), cat. no. 69

Exhibition History

• Collecting Privately, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 07/02/1965 - 09/05/1965

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