1994.24: Relief with Bones

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1994.24

People

David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT)

Title

Relief with Bones

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

1956

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/232028

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Paint-box lid covered with canvas, paint and ham and chicken bones

Dimensions

40.3 x 28.9 x 7.6 cm (15 7/8 x 11 3/8 x 3 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: u.r.: David Smith, Signed Date: 8/10/56

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

David Smtih, sold; to Lois Orswell, 1959, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1994.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell

Copyright

© The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Accession Year

1994

Object Number

1994.24

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Sarah Kianovsky, David Smith: This Work is My Identity, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1995), reproduced in b/w p. 5
• Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 211, fig. 93, pp. 246-247

Exhibition History

• 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
• HAA 1 Survey Course: Survey of World Art: Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/23/2005 - 07/31/2005

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