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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1990.32
People
Reginald Cotterell Butler, British (Buntingford, Hertfordshire, UK 1913 - 1981 Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire)
Title
Head of Circe
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1953
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/226306

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
36.83 cm (14 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Buchholz Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, 1953(?), gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1990.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Accession Year
1990
Object Number
1990.32
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 12, fig. 107, p. 306, 309

Exhibition History

  • [Benefit exhibition for the Boston Arts Festival], Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, 05/08/1956 - 05/29/1956
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003

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