1936.153.19: Head of a Young Man

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1936.153.19

People

Denman Waldo Ross, American (Cincinnati, OH 1853 - 1935 London, England)

Title

Head of a Young Man

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Head of a Boy

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1933

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307244

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on buff wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 27.9 x 21.7 cm (11 x 8 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, lower edge: DWR 1933
• inscription: lower margin, graphite, in artist's hand: SYSTEM / REGULAR POLYGON OF SIXTEEN SIDES / TRIANGLES / 45° 90° 45° 90° 67 1/2° 22 1/2° / WITHOUT CHANGING THE SYSTEM / THE SUBJECT MAY BE ESTABLISHED / IN A DIFFERENT RECTANGLE
• inscription: upper edge, graphite, in artist's hand: From 8 1/2" x 11" to 4" x 6"

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

1936.153.19

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• Dynamic Symmetry: A Retrospective Exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 02/05/1961 - 03/12/1961; Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 03/22/1961 - 04/19/1961; Carpenter Art Galleries, Hanover, 05/03/1961 - 05/31/1961

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