1941.78: Seated Female Nude; verso: Standing Female Nude

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1941.78

People

Mahonri Mackintosh Young, American (Salt Lake City, UT 1877 - 1957 Norwalk, CT)

Title

Seated Female Nude; verso: Standing Female Nude

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

19th-20th century

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307776

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red chalk on blue laid paper

Dimensions

actual: 47 x 32 cm (18 1/2 x 12 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: red chalk, l.l.: Mahonri
• inscription: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, graphite: [encircled:] 2 / 125
• inscription: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, graphite: K-851
• label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, typed: Mahonri Young
• label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: [printed:] Walker Galleries / 108 East Fifty-Seventh Street, New York / No. [typed:] K-851 / [printed:] Artist: [typed:] Mahonri Young / [printed:] Title: [typed:] Nude Seated

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Walker Galleries, Inc., New York, NY; sold to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1937; his gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1941.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886

Accession Year

1941

Object Number

1941.78

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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