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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.701
People
Peter Blume, American (Smorgon, Russia 1906 - 1992 New Milford, CT)
Title
Studies of a Catacomb; verso: Skull and Bones, both for "Passage to Etna"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1955
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308549

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray wash on cream laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 28 x 21.3 cm (11 x 8 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.r.: P. BLUME 1955

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. Edward L. Holsten, New York New York, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1960.

Acquisition and Rights

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
1960.701
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Peter Blume in Retrospect, exh. cat., Currier Museum of Art (Manchester, NH, 1964), no. 57, p. 24

Exhibition History

  • 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

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