A black and white photograph of a group of irregularly shaped objects.
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The black and white photograph has a dark background. A white shape snakes around the edge of the image, banded in the places on the right side by darker areas. At the top edge in the center is a half-moon disc. Within the snake like shape are a long narrow rectangle, a loosely shaped triangle with one rounded corner, a roughly shaped round and a pear shaped oval. The oval and the round are connected by a draped, thin, white line starts at the left edge and ends in a loop atop the rough circle.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1998.63
People
David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT)
Title
Untitled
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c. 1932-1935
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/195297

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sight: 7.9 × 11.2 cm (3 1/8 × 4 7/16 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
P1998.63
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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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.

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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