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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.153.99
People
Denman Waldo Ross, American (Cincinnati, OH 1853 - 1935 London, England)
Title
Head of a Youth
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1932
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307298

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on thin off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 25.7 x 18 cm (10 1/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, lower edge: DWR Oct 1932
  • inscription: lower edge, graphite, in artist's hand: 30° 60° 90° / Possibly 30°/2
  • inscription: lower edge, graphite, in artist's hand: Rectangle 7 x 10 inches
  • inscription: verso, graphite, in artist's hand: To return to Nakamura he [ ] / from me as my assistant for [ ] / in [week?] but / was as much his / assistant as he was mine. His / leading interest when he / first came to America and while / he was a servant in the house / was music. He studied the theory / and practice with violin as his / instrument and read the best music / written for that instrument. Later / without giving up his music he / took up the practice of painting. In / so doing he [ ] / in [connection?] with my Harvard / work. From first to last his work / was experimental NOT professional / as his knowledge understanding discrimination / and judgment [ ]. / My friends began to interest themselves in his work, and wanted to buy / more of his pictures. / Properly speaking / they belonged to me as work done / by my assistant and under my directions

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
1936.153.99
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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