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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1971.101
People
Ben Nicholson, British (Eight-Bells (Denham), England 1894 - 1982 London, England)
Title
Dust Blue
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1953
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/222150

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
90.2 x 90.2 cm (35 1/2 x 35 1/2 in.)
framed: 99.2 x 98.5 x 6.8 cm (39 1/16 x 38 3/4 x 2 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ben Nicholson, St. Ives; to [Gimpel Fils, London], sold; to Joseph Pulitzer Jr., St. Louis, Missouri, 1963, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1971.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS, London
Accession Year
1971
Object Number
1971.101
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles Scott Chetham, Modern Painting, Drawing & Sculpture: Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1971), pp. 500-501, fig. 205, ill. (b/w)
  • Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, p. 89, fig. 83, ill. (b/w)

Exhibition History

  • Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000

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