Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
This object does not yet have a description.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.265
People
David Hare, American (New York, NY 1917 - 1992 Jackson Hole, WY)
Title
Elephants
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1949
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305677

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on darkened off-white tracing paper
Dimensions
actual: 16.4 x 22.9 cm (6 7/16 x 9 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: David Hare
  • inscription: old backing, now in curatorial file, blue ballpoint: [encircled:] C-H82
  • gallery label: old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed: KOOTZ / GALLERY / NEW YORK
  • inscription: old backing, now in curatorial file, white chalk: 1278 / 12
  • inscription: old backing, now in curatorial file, blue ink: Coll: Lois Orswell / Pomfret Center / Conn

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Samuel M. Kootz Gallery Inc., New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1955, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.265
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 69, pp. 371, 376

Verification Level

This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu