A photographic collage with applied watercolor and black ink.
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The colors in the photographic collage are translucent. The blue background is darker on the edges and lighten towards the center. A brown shape occupies the center overlaying a lighter brown triangle. The brown shape is uneven, branching to left, a square at its top and rising to a peak on the right. A darker brown snake like shape surrounds the center of the image, a black disc with blue highlights is in the lower left, a black pear shape with blue highlights is on the right side. A thin black line surrounds the figures.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1998.64
People
David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT)
Title
Untitled
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph, negative
Date
c. 1932-1935
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/195252

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Collaged photographic negative made from film with applied gouache and black ink
Technique
Negative, mixed technique
Dimensions
sight: 8 × 11.4 cm (3 1/8 × 4 1/2 in.)
framed: 30.7 × 33.7 × 2.5 cm (12 1/16 × 13 1/4 × 1 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY, from the estate of the artist, sold to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1998. 523 West 24th St., New York, NY 10021

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Emily Rauh Pulitzer
Copyright
© The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
P1998.64
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), pp. 73-74, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Photographs, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/29/2000 - 07/23/2000
  • 32Q: 1310 Surrealism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/19/2017 - 04/05/2018

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