Elephants | Harvard Art Museums

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
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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

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