Seated Female Nude; verso: Seated Nude | Harvard Art Museums

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1996.24
People: Earl Kerkam, American (Washington DC 1890 - 1965 New York NY)
Title: Seated Female Nude; verso: Seated Nude
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1953
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305713

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and watercolor on thin cream wove paper; verso: watercolor and crayon

Dimensions

actual: 37 x 36 cm (14 9/16 x 14 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: graphite, l.r.: Kerkam / Paris 53
inscription: l.l., graphite: #4705
inscription: l.r., graphite: 14 x 16 1/2

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1956, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1996.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Accession Year: 1996
Object Number: 1996.24
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Verso is scratched out in graphite. Graphite arrows at center of each edge of recto have been erased; verso has blue ballpoint arrows at center of each edge.

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. 78, p. 377

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