1936.153.205: Male Head in Profile, with Notes

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1936.153.205

People

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

Title

Male Head in Profile, with Notes

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Profile Head of a Youth

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

19th-20th century

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307436

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 28 x 21.5 cm (11 x 8 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: above image, graphite, in artist's hand: Representation. / Motion to express the truth of Representation. / Terms: the diagonals of a ²2 rectangle / connected by curves.
• inscription: u.r., graphite, in artist's hand: A ²2 rectangle with its diagonals
• inscription: center right, graphite, in artist's hand: To show how the curves / should be drawn. / In [these?] curves we / find an emotional /expression of straight line / constructions. The / curves are [like?] / the muscles on / this [selection?]
• watermark: WIRELESS BOND [with design of a quadripartite circle]

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

1936.153.205

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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