Drawing No. 7 (Female Nude) | Harvard Art Museums

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1996.19
People: Earl Kerkam, American (Washington DC 1890 - 1965 New York NY)
Title: Drawing No. 7 (Female Nude)
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1956
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305771

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and orange crayon on dark cream wove paper, darkened

Dimensions

actual: 44.8 x 35.9 cm (17 5/8 x 14 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: graphite, u.r.: Kerkam / Paris
inscription: graphite, left edge: 13 x 17 / 19 x 23

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [Poindexter Gallery, New York, New York], sold?; to[Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1996.

NOTE: It is unclear whether the Margaret Brown Gallery purchased the drawing from the Poindexter Gallery or acted as their agent in the sale of the drawing.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Accession Year: 1996
Object Number: 1996.19
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. 80, pp. 371, 376

Exhibition History

Margaret Brown Memorial Exhibition, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, 11/10/1957 - 12/15/1957

Verification Level

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