1954.165: Cathedral, Plasencia

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1954.165

People

Kenneth John Conant, American (Neenah WI 1894 - 1984 Bedford MA)

Title

Cathedral, Plasencia

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

Jun 25 1920

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/308431

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on buff wove paper

Dimensions

image: 23 x 15.1 cm (9 1/16 x 5 15/16 in.)
actual: 23.8 x 15.8 cm (9 3/8 x 6 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.l.: Kenneth Conant
• inscription: l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: [encircled:] 63; June 25 1920 Cathedral from the pasture across the river, Plasencia
• inscription: verso, graphite: Kenneth Conant / Robinson Hall / Camb. Mass
• inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: D
• label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: [typed:] Property of Kenneth Conant / [printed:] The Cambridge School of / Domestic Architecture & / Landscape Architecture / At Cambridge Massachusetts
• label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, ink, graphite, typed and handwritten: [typed:] Cathedral from the Pasture / Across the River, Plasencia / [handwritten in graphite:] #341

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Kenneth John Conant, Cambridge Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1954.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Kenneth J. Conant

Accession Year

1954

Object Number

1954.165

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• Conant Drawings, Loeb Library, Cambridge, 09/30/1974 - 11/01/1974

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