Self-Portrait | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1936.71.52
People: Denman Waldo Ross, American (Cincinnati, OH 1853 - 1935 London, England)
Title: Self-Portrait
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1896
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/306854

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

26.6 × 20.5 cm (10 1/2 × 8 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r.: DWR... April 1896
inscription: l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: DWR himself / Done in Rome April 1896

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Bequest of the artist to the Fogg Art Museum, 1936.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Denman W. Ross, Class of 1875
Accession Year: 1936
Object Number: 1936.71.52
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Mary Ann Stankiewicz, "Rules and Intervention: From Ornament to Design in Art Education", Framing the Past: Essays on Art Education, ed. Donald Soucy, National Art Education Association (Reston, VA, 1990), repr. in b/w p. 94
Marie Frank, Denman Ross and American Design Theory, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH, 2011), p. 13, repr. p. 15 as fig I.4

Exhibition History

Denman W. Ross, Concord Free Public Library, Concord, 01/09/1954 - 01/30/1954

Verification Level

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1936.71.52: Self-Portrait