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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1997.116
People
Bruce Conner, American (McPherson, Kansas 1933 - 2008 San Francisco)
Title
Untitled Drawing #1
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
July 27, 1974
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/264854

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on white wove paper
Dimensions
55.8 x 52 cm (21 15/16 x 20 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • exhibition label: back of frame: for exhibition "Bruce Conner: World's Greatest Drawings 1962-1992," 1992
  • gallery label: back of frame: no. BCR93.15
  • gallery label: back of frame
  • label: back of frame: Property of Bruce Conner, c/o Paula Z. Kirkeby
  • inscription: back of frame, green ink, signed, in artist's hand: Bruce Conner
  • inscription: back of frame, black ink, in artist's hand: 1-7/27/74
  • inscription: back of frame, black felt-tipped ink: 5419
  • label: back of frame: description of California Resale Royalties Act
  • inscription: verso, bottom, graphite, in artist's hand: Bruce Conner / 7/27/74
  • inscription: verso, upside down, graphite, in artist's hand: Bruce Conner / 7/27/74 [inscription erased]
  • watermark: BFK RIVES

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bruce Conner. [Paula Z. Kirkeby Contemporary Fine Art, Palo Alto, California]. [G. W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, New York], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1997.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Conner Family Trust, San Francisco / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1997
Object Number
1997.116
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story Part II, exh. cat., Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN, 1999), cat. no. 89, repr. p. 118, p. 75
  • Rudolf Frieling and Gary Garrels, ed., Bruce Conner: It's All True, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, 2016), p. 156, fig. 118, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Bruce Conner: The World's Greatest Drawings 1962-1992, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, 11/05/1992 - 11/28/1992
  • Drawings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, 09/08/1993 - 10/02/1993
  • 2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story Part II, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 10/09/1999 - 01/02/2000; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Forth Worth, 02/06/2000 - 04/23/2000; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 10/01/2000 - 01/14/2001
  • Nominally Figured: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/08/2006 - 02/25/2007
  • Bruce Conner: It's All True, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 07/03/2016 - 10/02/2016; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 10/29/2016 - 01/22/2017

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