1979.261: Look out for the Bulg

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1979.261

People

Alan Shields, American (Herington, KS 1944 - 2005 Shelter Island, NY)

Title

Look out for the Bulg

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1977-1978

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/299936

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor on paper pulp and wire grid

Dimensions

35 × 64 cm (13 3/4 × 25 3/16 in.)
frame: 36.4 × 66.2 × 5.7 cm (14 5/16 × 26 1/16 × 2 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• gallery label: back of frame, paper, printed and typed: Thomas / Segal / Gallery / Alan Shields / Look out for the Bulg, 1977-78 / handmade paper with stainless / wire and watercolor / 13 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches / # 11125 / 73 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 / telephone: 617-266-3500
• inscription: back of frame, marker: 0543 A

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts], sold; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1979.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquired through the Deknatel Purchase Fund

Copyright

© Alan Shields Estate

Accession Year

1979

Object Number

1979.261

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Sheet has a convex curve.

Publication History

• Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 70 on p. 141

Exhibition History

• Texture and Paper, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/24/1980 - 12/14/1980
• American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

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