Seated Male Nude with Left Leg Drawn Up | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1936.153.163
People: Denman Waldo Ross, American (Cincinnati, OH 1853 - 1935 London, England)
Title: Seated Male Nude with Left Leg Drawn Up
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Seated Nude Youth
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1927
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/307456

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

image: 22 x 17.8 cm (8 11/16 x 7 in.)
actual: 27.8 x 19.1 cm (10 15/16 x 7 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: graphite, l.r.: DWR 1927
inscription: upper edge, graphite, in artist's hand: Another way of drawing [erased: is by geometric] / is by Geometric Construction. for Example: / In the system of an Isosoles Right Triangle
watermark: OLD NEW ENGLAND BOND / S. WARD MFG. CO. BOSTON
(not assigned): Drawn on the verso of a typed manuscript sheet with diagrams, beginning "A metrical system in light and color with diagrams of the set palettes to be used in the practice of painting." Typed at the bottom of the sheet: D. W. R. 1927

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: 1936.153.163
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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