1961.78: Albert Schweitzer and his Piano Organ

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

Permissions

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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

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