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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.314
People
Michael Lewis, American (Brooklyn, NY born 1941)
Title
Gift of Light
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1983
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305841

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Turpentine wash with oil on off-white wove paper?
Dimensions
sight: 49.6 x 72.5 cm (19 1/2 x 28 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: blue watercolor, u.r.: 1983 MICHAEL H LEWIS
  • inscription: backing board, blue felt-tip pen, crossed out: MAGIC IS ALIVE... GOD MOVES (#5) / Michael Lewis / oil wash on 100% rag paper / 1977 / $450 [apparently refers to a different work]
  • inscription: backing board, graphite: CAML 04

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Vermeer Associates Ltd.], sold; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2001.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Special Purchase Fund
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
2001.314
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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