- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1951.119
- People
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Jean (Hans) Arp, French (Strasbourg, Alsace, Germany 1886 - 1966 Basel)
- Title
- Abstraction, Study for Harkness Commons Mural, Harvard University
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1950
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/296968
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Opaque watercolor and black ink on off-white wove paper with architectural design
- Dimensions
- 52 x 66.5 cm (20 1/2 x 26 3/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: label affixed, lower left: ARP / MEUDON 4
- Provenance
- Transfer from the Harvard Corporation.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard Corporation
- Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Accession Year
- 1951
- Object Number
- 1951.119
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Simona Martinoli and Roland Scotti, ed., Public Arp: Hans Arp Architekturbezogene Arbeiten, exh. cat., Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess (Zurich, 2019), pp. 66-67, fig. 3b, ill. (b/w)
- Exhibition History
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Works from the 20th Century Collection of the Busch-Reisinger, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 09/23/1980 - 10/24/1980
Hans Arp’s Constellations II, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/08/2019 - 07/28/2019
- Subjects and Contexts
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The Bauhaus
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