1994.27: Red Heart
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1994.27
- People
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David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT)
- Title
- Red Heart
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1959
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/232822
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil? and synthetic medium on canvas
- Dimensions
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256.86 x 124.78 cm (101 1/8 x 49 1/8 in.)
framed: 258.13 x 126.05 x 4.45 cm (101 5/8 x 49 5/8 x 1 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: lower center: David Smith 1959
- inscription: Written in ink on two horizontal bars of the stretcher: Red Heart
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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
- 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
- 1994.27
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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. 219, p. 158, p. 159 as fig. 73 (color), p. 348, 378
- Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., Knoedler & Co. Inc. (New York, 2003), p56
Exhibition History
- Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
- Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 11/14/2003 - 01/24/2004
Verification Level
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