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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.153.184
People
Denman Waldo Ross, American (Cincinnati, OH 1853 - 1935 London, England)
Title
Male Head in Profile
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Profile Head of a Man
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1925
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307441

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 28 x 21.4 cm (11 x 8 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.l.: DWR / Dec 27 1925
  • watermark: WIRELESS BOND [with design of quadripartite circle]
  • inscription: verso, graphite, in artist's hand: [ ] is very naturally and logically / and with experience. We draw on a [form?[ and / come to our conclusions. And [superscript: with experience] [ ] / in the routines of life ignoring and forgetting / the [superscript: [two words, illeg.]] and premises upon which [superscript: it all rests and upon which] we are [ ] . / [crossed off: The sense [improves?] which are the / basis and foundation of it all.] It is / to call the [attention?] of the student to this [crossed off: what he really sees] [experience?] [superscript: If that we really see] [ ] the [facts?] of vision / the main purpose of what we / call our Study Series is to call the / attention of the student that is pure / of vision to the facts of vision, to what / we really see, but rarely stop to consider.

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
1936.153.184
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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