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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.703
People
Peter Blume, American (Smorgon, Russia 1906 - 1992 New Milford, CT)
Title
Woman Hanging Wash, for "Passage to Etna"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1955
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308592

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gray wash, black ink, charcoal (applied wet), and red pencil on thin off-white wove paper; verso: black crayon and red pencil
Dimensions
actual: 96.6 x 55.9 cm (38 1/16 x 22 in.)

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
1960.703
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sheet is hinged to mat at right edge instead of top

Publication History

  • Peter Blume in Retrospect, exh. cat., Currier Museum of Art (Manchester, NH, 1964), no. 58, p. 24
  • Peter Blume in Retrospect: Paintings and Drawings 1926-1964, exh. cat., Kennedy Galleries, Inc. (New York, NY, 1964), no. 14, ill.
  • Frank Anderson Trapp, Peter Blume, Rizzoli (New York, NY, 1987)
  • Robert Cozzolino, ed., Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis, exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, 2014), p. 252, fig. 113, ill.

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
  • Peter Blume, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, 02/20/1968 - 03/09/1968
  • Peter Blume, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, 01/10/1976 - 02/29/1976
  • Re-View: S425A (Small Niche) Peter Blume, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/2010 - 09/04/2010

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