1949.72: The Quick and the Dead

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1949.72

People

Benjamin Rowland, Jr., American (Overbrook PA 1904 - 1972 Cambridge MA)

Title

The Quick and the Dead

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1948

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/308257

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

sight: 56.7 x 74.9 cm (22 5/16 x 29 1/2 in.)
Framed: 83.82 x 101.6 x 3.81 cm (33 x 40 x 1 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black ink, l.l.: BRowland / 1948

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1949

Object Number

1949.72

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Benjamin Rowland, Jr. Memorial Exhibition, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Mass., 1973), no. 25

Exhibition History

• Unidentified Exhibition, Doll and Richards, 1948, Doll and Richards Gallery, Boston, 01/01/1948 - 12/31/1948
• Unidentified Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1949, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 01/01/1949 - 12/31/1949
• Unidentified Exhibition, Rutgers University Art Gallery, 1950, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, 05/01/1950 - 05/22/1950
• Benjamin Rowland, Jr. Memorial Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 09/28/1973 - 10/21/1973; St. Paul's School, 04/07/1974 - 05/04/1974

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