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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.51
People
William Baziotes, American (Pittsburgh, PA 1912 - 1963 New York, NY)
Title
Bird of Paradise
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1947
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229019

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
96.5 x 76.2 cm (38 x 30 in.)
framed: 117.5 x 97.2 x 6.4 cm (46 1/4 x 38 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Baziotes
  • inscription: From conservation files: on back of canvas: Bird of Paradise/W. Baziotes 1947

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
1949.51
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 155, ill.
  • 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, reproduced in color fig. 86, p. 92

Exhibition History

  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • New York School: From the First Generation, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1975 - 01/06/1976
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986
  • 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
  • 32Q: 1330 Mid-Century Figurative, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/13/2015 - 07/13/2021

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