- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1994.26
- People
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David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT)
- Title
- Untitled
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1959
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/232025
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Oil? and synthetic medium on canvas.
- Dimensions
- 244.5 x 33.3 cm (96 1/4 x 13 1/8 in.)
framed: 246.3 x 35 x 4.5 cm (96 15/16 x 13 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r.: David Smith , Signed Date: 1959
- Provenance
- David Smith, Bolton Landing, New York, sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1959, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1994.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
- Copyright
- © 2020 The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
- Accession Year
- 1994
- Object Number
- 1994.26
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 221, p. 348, 378
Richard Mulholland, "Of Dreams and Visions and Things Not Known: Looking at David Smith's Drawing Media" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2003), Unpublished, pp. 1-43 passim
- Exhibition History
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David Smith: "This work is my identity", Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/1995 - 05/05/1996
Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
32Q: 1200 Mid-Century Abstraction I (Painterly Abstraction), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/10/2018 - 06/02/2021
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