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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1925.19
People
Howard Everett Giles, American (Brooklyn NY 1876 - 1955 Woodstock VT)
Title
Cassius
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1922
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306309

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on brown wove paper
Dimensions
image: 41 x 26 cm (16 1/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
actual: 45.4 x 30.5 cm (17 7/8 x 12 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: H. Giles '22
  • inscription: backing mat, black ink: "Cassius" by Howard Giles / Presented to the Fogg Museum / by Frank M. Avery

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Frank M. Avery, New York, New York, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1925.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Frank M. Avery
Accession Year
1925
Object Number
1925.19
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Drawings by Howard Giles", Fogg Art Museum Notes, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, June 1926), vol. II, no. 2, pp. 82-84, repr. p. 84

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition of Howard Giles Drawings, 1926, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/01/1926 - 06/30/1926
  • Modern Design Compared to Antique, Boston Public Library, Boston, 10/16/1933 - 10/31/1933

Verification Level

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