1999.72: Gladiolus

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

Permissions

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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

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