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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1951.16
People
F. Gray Foy, American (Dallas TX 1922 - 2012 New York City)
Title
Study of Flowers, Lake Tahoe
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1949
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308285

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on heavy off-white wove paper
Dimensions
24.4 × 19.6 cm (9 5/8 × 7 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, r. center: Gray Foy / 1949
  • exhibition label: removed from mount, now in curatorial file, paper: No. 31, New Talent in the US exhibition, 1957 (4/57 - 6/58)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Durlacher Brothers, New York New York], sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091), 1950, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1951.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1951
Object Number
1951.16
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Don Quaintance, ed., Gray Foy: Drawings 1941-1975, Callaway Arts & Entertainment (New York, 2018), p. 28, pl. 28, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Durlacher Bros. Galleries, 1951, Durlacher Bros. Galleries, New York, 04/20/1951 - 05/31/1951
  • New Talent in the USA, Unknown Venues, 04/01/1957 - 06/30/1957

Verification Level

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