Harvard Art Museums > BR69.227: Figures Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Figures (Ernst Wilhelm Nay) , BR69.227,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/220242. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number BR69.227 People Ernst Wilhelm Nay, German (Berlin, Germany 1902 - 1968 Cologne, Germany) Title Figures Other Titles Original Language Title: Figuren Former Title: Leda and the Swan Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1949 Culture German Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/220242 Physical Descriptions Medium Transparent and opaque watercolor on off-white wove paper Dimensions 23.6 x 31.8 cm (9 5/16 x 12 1/2 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: in graphite at l.l.: Nay 49 inscription: on verso, graphite, handwritten, English: Leda and the Swan / by Ernst Wilhelm Nay 1949 / gift to the Busch-Reisinger Museum / From Naomi Jackson Groves / November 1969. (Mrs. J. Walton Groves) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Collection Naomi Jackson Groves, gift; Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1969 State, Edition, Standard Reference Number Standard Reference Number Claesges 49-031 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Naomi Jackson Groves Copyright © E. Nay-Scheibler. Koln / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Accession Year 1969 Object Number BR69.227 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description The support is a heavy wove paper. Publication History Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 69 Dr. Magdalene Claesges, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Werkverzeichnis. Aquarelle - Gouachen - Zeichnungen, Bd. 2, 1949-1953, Hatje Cantz (Ostfildern, Germany, 2014), p. 28, col. ill. Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 321-323, cat. no. 43.2, ill. (color) Exhibition History 19th- and 20th-Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/08/1982 Aspects of Art in West Germany, 1945-1965, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 08/22/1992 - 10/18/1992 Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/09/2018 - 06/03/2018 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
