- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1990.49
- People
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Reginald Cotterell Butler, British (Buntingford, Hertfordshire, UK 1913 - 1981 Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire)
- Title
- Head - Study for Sculpture
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1954
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/294568
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black pastel, gray wash, white gouache, and yellow wash on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- actual: 38.7 x 28.4 cm (15 1/4 x 11 3/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r., graphite: Butler '54
- Provenance
- [Curt Valentin, Buchholz Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1955, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1990.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
- Accession Year
- 1990
- Object Number
- 1990.49
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 13, fig. 108, pp. 309, 375, 381
- Exhibition History
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[Benefit exhibition for the Boston Arts Festival], Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, 05/08/1956 - 05/29/1956
Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
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