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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.592
People
Albert Edward Sterner, American (London, England 1863 - 1946 New York, NY)
Title
Grenville L. Winthrop (1864 - 1943)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
Jan 1932
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, New York State, New York City
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308063

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black, red, and white chalk, brown wash, and charcoal on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 48.2 x 35.7 cm (19 x 14 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: Albert Sterner / del at New York / 1932
  • inscription: verso, black ink: This portrait / of Grenville Lindall Winthrop Esq. / was drawn from life by Albert Sterner / at New York in January 1932.
  • inscription: back of old frame, graphite: [encircled:] 33
  • label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, typed: Gallery label(?): 41.51.1

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Presumably from the artist to Grenville Winthrop, 1932; his bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.592
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
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Publication History

  • Elinor Pearlstein, "Ancient Chinese Jade through the Sonnenschein Lens, 1900-1935", Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, Oriental Ceramic Society (London, 2013-2014), vol. 78, pp. 65-86, pp. 78-79, fig. 13a

Exhibition History

  • Portrait, Prospect and Poetry: British Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Bequest, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/11/1993 - 11/07/1993

Verification Level

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