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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.153.162
People
Denman Waldo Ross, American (Cincinnati, OH 1853 - 1935 London, England)
Title
Ginger
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Study of a Youth's Head
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1926
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307385

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
image: 21.8 x 15 cm (8 9/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
actual: 28 x 20.1 cm (11 x 7 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.l.: DWR Nov 1926
  • inscription: below image, graphite, in artist's hand: Composition in Vertical and Horizontal Lines / in a ²2 Rectangle / Diagonal lines are not necessary but desirable. [this is overwritten over another, erased inscription, now illegible.]

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
1936.153.162
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The verso of the sheet has a diagram with rectangles and diagonal lines.

Verification Level

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