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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.72
People
Susan Schwalb, American (New York, NY born 1944)
Title
Gladiolus
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1978
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/191901

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Metalpoint on white paperboard prepared with white gesso
Dimensions
58.4 x 44.8 cm (23 x 17 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., graphite: Susan Schwalb 1978
  • inscription: verso, u.c., graphite, in artist's hand: top
  • inscription: verso, l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: 1/II/78
  • inscription: verso, l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: "Gladiolus" 1978/
    Silverpoint/
    permanent pigment "True gesso"/
    5 ply strathmore plate finish

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Susan Schwalb, Watertown, Massachusetts, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1999.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Susan Schwalb
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.72
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
From notes by Susan Schwalb:
Drawing on strathmore plate finish paper.
Drawing has a true gesso ground, Permanent Pigments Dry Mix.

Publication History

  • Jill Waterman, "Delicate Understandings", Artsmedia (Boston, MA, June 15, 2000 - July 16, 2000), vol. 4, no. 10, p. 31, detail repr.

Exhibition History

  • 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

Verification Level

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