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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1974.160
People
Ernest Trova, American (St. Louis MO 1927 - 2009 Richmond Heights, Missouri)
Title
Study for Falling Man, No. 61
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1964
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/226838

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil? on canvas
Dimensions
177.8 x 177.17 cm (70 x 69 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ernest Trova, St. Louis, Missouri, sold; to Joseph Pulitzer Jr., St. Louis, Missouri, 1974, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1974.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Accession Year
1974
Object Number
1974.160
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles Buckley, Works of Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer Jr., exh. cat., City Art Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis, MO, 1968), reproduced, no. 79
  • Hilton Kramer, "Few Surprises in Pulitzer Collection", The New York Times (November 18, 1971), p. 60
  • Jolene Goldenthal, "Pulitzer Collection at Fogg", The Hartford Courant (December 5, 1971)
  • Charles Scott Chetham, Modern Painting, Drawing & Sculpture: Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1971), pp. 551-554, fig. 236, ill. (b/w)
  • Ernest Trova, Selections 1954-1973, exh. cat. (Phoenix, AZ, 1974), reproduced, no. 8

Exhibition History

  • Works of Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer Jr., City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 01/22/1968 - 03/17/1968
  • Modern Painting Drawing and Sculpture Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer Jr, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1971 - 01/03/1972
  • Ernest Trova Retrospective, [Unknown venue, Phoenix AZ], Phoenix, 01/12/1974 - 03/03/1974

Verification Level

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