- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1960.695
- People
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Peter Blume, American (Smorgon, Russia 1906 - 1992 New Milford, CT)
- Title
- Skull and Bones in a Tomb; verso: Skull, both for "Passage to Etna"
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Study for a Tomb, for "Passage to Aetna"
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1955
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/308530
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black ink and gray wash on cream laid paper; verso: gray wash
- Dimensions
- 19.1 x 28.1 cm (7 1/2 x 11 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: black ink, l.l.: P. BLUME 1955
- Provenance
- Mrs. Edward L. Holsten, New York New York, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1960.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Edward L. Holsten, in memory of her husband, Edward Lawrence Holsten, class of 1922
- Copyright
- © Peter Blume Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.695
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Peter Blume in Retrospect, exh. cat., Currier Museum of Art (Manchester, NH, 1964), no. 55, p. 24
Robert Cozzolino, ed., Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis, exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, 2014), p. 250, fig. 110, ill.
- Exhibition History
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Peter Blume in Retrospect, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 04/16/1964 - 05/31/1964; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 07/09/1964 - 08/16/1964
- Related Works
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