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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.264
People
Philip Guston, American (Montreal, Canada 1913 - 1980 Woodstock, NY)
Title
Untitled
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1953
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305881

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on cream wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 45.5 x 60.9 cm (17 15/16 x 24 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.l.: P. Guston
  • inscription: old backing, now in curatorial file, black ink: Coll: / Lois Orswell / Pomfret Conn
  • inscription: old backing, now in curatorial file, blue ink: Guston
  • gallery label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and handwritten: Title: Drawing #7

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Charles Egan, 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
Copyright
© The Estate of Philip Guston, courtesy Hauser & Wirth
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.264
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. 65, fig. 126, pp. 129, 371, 376
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., Knoedler & Co. Inc. (New York, 2003), cat. no. 9, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 11/14/2003 - 01/24/2004

Verification Level

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