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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1959.165
People
Pavel Tchelitchew, American (Kaluga district, Russia 1898 - 1957 Grotta Ferrata, Italy)
Title
Frederick Ashton (1904-1988)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1938
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308576

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silverpoint on white prepared paper
Dimensions
50.8 x 31.8 cm (20 x 12 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: silverpoint, lower center: P. Tchelitchew / 1938 / London
  • exhibition label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: no. 76.1.236
  • label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: Loan no. 66.227[1?]
  • label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: Loan no. 366.56

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Durlacher Brothers, New York, New York], sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091), 1943, gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1959.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1959
Object Number
1959.165
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Frederick Ashton was a British choreographer and a director of the Royal Ballet.

Publication History

  • Golden Years of American Drawings, 1905 - 1956, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (New York, NY, 1957), p. 39, repr.
  • Sidney Simon and Emily S. Rauh, 20th Century Master Drawings, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1963), no. 117
  • Lincoln Kirstein, Pavel Tchelitchew Drawings, Hacker Art Books (New York, NY, 1970), no. 33, repr.
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 153, ill.
  • William Bradley, Art: Magic, Impulse and Control. A Guide to Viewing, Prentice-Hall, Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1973), p. 71, rig. 31
  • Daniel M. Mendelowitz, A Guide to Drawing, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY, 1976), p. 155
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Harper & Row (New York, NY, 1976), p. 335, fig. 295
  • Marvin Sadik and Harold Pfister, American Portrait Drawings, exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery (Washington, D.C, 1980), p. 138, ill.
  • Daniel M. Mendelowitz and Duane A. Wakeham, Mendelowitz's Guide to Drawing, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY, 1982), p. 152
  • Douglas Dreishpoon, "The Fine Line: Drawing with Silver", Arts Magazine (September 1985)
  • Bruce Weber, The Fine Line: Drawing with Silver in America, exh. cat., R. W. Norton Gallery (West Palm Beach, FL, 1985), p. 138, repr.
  • Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 34 under "Metalpoint"

Exhibition History

  • Tchelitchew: Paintings, Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 10/06/1942 - 11/29/1942
  • Contemporary American Drawings, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 01/11/1956 - 02/26/1956
  • Golden Years of American Drawings 1950 - 1956, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 01/22/1957 - 03/19/1957
  • Stravinsky and the Dance, New York Public Library, New York, 05/02/1962 - 06/02/1962
  • 20th Century Master Drawings, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 11/06/1963 - 01/05/1964; University of Minnesota Art Gallery, Minneapolis, 02/03/1964 - 03/15/1964; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/06/1964 - 05/24/1964
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 09/01/1976 - 10/26/1976; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 11/23/1976 - 01/23/1977; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 02/20/1977 - 04/17/1977
  • The Fine Line: Drawing with Silver in America, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Springfield, 12/07/1985 - 01/19/1986
  • Pavel Tchelitchew, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, 09/22/1989 - 11/26/1989

Verification Level

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