1936.153.195: Profile Head of Walter Nelson (recto and verso)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1936.153.195

People

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

Title

Profile Head of Walter Nelson (recto and verso)

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Profile Head of a Boy; verso: Profile Head of a Boy

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1929

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307372

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

35.7 x 25.5 cm (14 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, below image: DWR May 1st 1929
• inscription: below image, graphite, in artist's hand: Nelson / 1st central vertical / 2nd central horizontal / 3rd drawing in the way of tracing / the drawing falls into the directions / and angles of a ²2 rectangle approximately. / 5. Drawing with ²2 triangle / 6 Drawing if necessary with a ²8 triangle
  
• watermark: [WARD'S] BOSTON BOND

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

1936.153.195

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Compositional lines drawn over figure.

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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