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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1996.26
People
Willem de Kooning, American (Rotterdam, Netherlands 1904 - 1997 East Hampton, NY)
Title
Reclining Woman
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1948-1949
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305770

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil, graphite, and black and green crayon on cream illustration board
Dimensions
40.4 x 43.4 cm (15 7/8 x 17 1/16 in.)
image: 31.9 x 41.7 cm (12 9/16 x 16 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: de Kooning
  • inscription: Inscr. below image, graphite: NO 15 mat 3" on sides / 2" on top and bottom / ivory / small frame; lower right, blue ballpoint: op-16 1/4 x 12 7/16
  • gallery label: back of frame: #3622

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to 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
Copyright
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1996
Object Number
1996.26
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Timothy Anglin Burgard, American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1994), p. 12, cat. 73
  • Modern Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan, 1999), cat. 64, ill.
  • Linda Norden, John Wesley: Love's Lust, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), n.p.
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), pp. 76, 108, 120, 371, 376, cat. 27, fig. 58, ill.
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist

Exhibition History

  • American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/01/1994 - 12/30/1994
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000
  • John Wesley: Love's Lust, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2001 - 02/25/2001
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
  • HAA 1 Survey Course: Survey of World Art: Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/23/2005 - 07/31/2005
  • American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 08 Rotation 3), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/20/2008 - 02/08/2009
  • American Art and Modernity, 1865–1965, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2012 - 01/19/2013

Verification Level

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