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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.253
People
Dorr Bothwell, American (San Francisco CA 1902 - 2000 San Francisco CA)
Title
Desert Campfire
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1955
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308496

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, gray wash and wax crayon on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
sight: 63.2 x 48.2 cm (24 7/8 x 19 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.r.: Bothwell '55

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
National Serigraph Society, New York, New York, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1956.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the National Serigraph Society
Accession Year
1956
Object Number
1956.253
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Twentieth Century American Graphic Arts, Museum voor Sierkunst, Ghent, 11/09/1956 - 12/31/1956; Strozzi Palace, Florence, 01/01/1957 - 01/31/1957; Sala Napoleonica, Venice, 02/01/1957 - 02/28/1957; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Roma, Rome, 03/01/1957 - 03/28/1957; De Beyerd Art Center, Breda, 07/20/1957 - 09/08/1957
  • 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/18/2024 - 10/17/2024

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