1993.265: Fantastic Octopus
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1993.265
- People
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Alfonso Ossorio, American (Manila, The Philippines 1916 - 1990 East Hampton, NY)
- Title
- Fantastic Octopus
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1942
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/264858
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Transparent and opaque watercolor and black ink on blue wove paper
- Dimensions
- 57.8 x 47 cm (22 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.l., black ink: 28 / IV / 19 / AO [monogram] / 42 / Greenwich / Conn.
- inscription: verso: lower right, graphite, inscribed: 3 1/2 - 4 - off white mat, blk line / [illegible] scoop silver
- watermark: upper right: G WILMOT
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Agnes Mongan, Cambridge, Massachusetts, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1993.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Agnes Mongan
- Copyright
- © Robert U. Ossorio Foundation
- Accession Year
- 1993
- Object Number
- 1993.265
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Scott Homolka, "Horror Vacui and the Process of Expression: A Technical Explanation of Drawings by Alfonso Ossorio" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2004), Unpublished, pp. 1-19 passim
- Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 45, 118, repr. as figs. 2 and 3 [detail] on p. 45, pl. 49 on p. 118
- Penley Knipe and Miriam Stewart, Material Matters (A Watercolor Treasury, Support, Reserve, Opacity, Intervention, Resist, Impermanence), American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, ed. Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2023), Pages 40-67, Figure 2, Page 45; Figure 3, Page 45
Exhibition History
- The Body Politic: Surrealism on Both Sides of the Atlantic 1924 - 1947, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1995 - 01/07/1996
- American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023
Verification Level
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