M22646: Dirt Track Racing

Identification and Creation

Object Number

M22646

People

Claude Flight, British (1881 - 1955)

Title

Dirt Track Racing

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

c. 1928-1930

Culture

British, English

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/233064

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Color linocut on Gampi paper

Technique

Linocut

Dimensions

block: 25.5 x 30.7 cm (10 1/16 x 12 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: CLAUDE FLIGHT
• inscription: lower left corner, in white area inside block, graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: CLAUDE 9/50 / FLIGHT
• inscription: in three of four corners (BR, TR, TL) on tape and over lapping into block area, black marker [?], handwritten, in artist's hand: [arrows of various shapes pointing into center; lower right one mostly inside taped area on paper; upper right mostly on tape; upper left arrow half in, half out of taped area]
• inscription: on square of tape at lower left, graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: [upside down] 7 [style with a - through it]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Roger Genser: The Prints & the Pauper, Santa Monica, California], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, December 6, 1994.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Coppel 1995, CF 29

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alvin Whitley Fund

Accession Year

1994

Object Number

M22646

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• 32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/2024 - 10/28/2024

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