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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1961.78
People
Frederick Franck, American (Maastricht Holland 1909 - 2006 Warwick, New York)
Title
Albert Schweitzer and his Piano Organ
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
Aug 1959
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308561

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray wash on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 27.9 x 43.3 cm (11 x 17 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Black ink, l.l.: Franck 8/1959
  • inscription: l.l., black ink, in artist's hand: Lambarene
  • inscription: l.r., black ink, in artist's hand: a few hours before departure
  • exhibition label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: No. B12437, [exhibition] #15

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Doll and Richards, Boston Massachsetts], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1961.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Fritz B. Talbot
Accession Year
1961
Object Number
1961.78
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Gordon Brown, "Artist in Love with Life", Art Voices (December 1963), reproduced in book review section
  • Frederick Franck, My Eye is in Love: Revelations on the Act of Seeing by Drawing, The Macmillan Company and MacMillan (New York, NY, 1963), reproduced

Exhibition History

  • [Frederick Franck exhibition], FAR Gallery, New York, 10/21/1963 - 11/09/1963
  • Music in Art, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, 07/27/1968 - 08/16/1968

Verification Level

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