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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1961.123
People
Marsden Hartley, American (Lewiston, ME 1877 - 1943 Ellsworth, ME)
Title
Mount Katahdin, Maine
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1939
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308602

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black crayon on thin cream wove paper, set down to tissue
Dimensions
56 × 71.4 cm (22 1/16 × 28 1/8 in.)
mat: 66.7 × 80.3 cm (26 1/4 × 31 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso of original illustration board, graphite: Rosenberg 44 1668 [per curatorial file]
  • stamp: verso of original illustration board, ink, stamped: A1663 [stamped twice] [per curatorial file]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091), by 1945, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1961.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1961
Object Number
1961.123
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sheet was originally top facing of illustration board.

Publication History

  • Charles E. Slatkin and Regina Shoolman Slatkin, Treasury of American Drawings, Oxford University Press (NY) (New York, NY, 1947), p. 33, no. 122 p. xiii, repr. as pl. 122
  • Fogg Art Museum and Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Real and Ideal in American Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, Summer 1948), cat. 27

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Institute of Modern Art, 1947, Institute of Modern Art (now Institute of Contemporary Art), Boston, 01/01/1947 - 12/31/1947
  • American Drawings, 17th through 20th Centuries, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 04/03/1948 - 05/30/1948
  • Real and Ideal in American Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1948 - 09/01/1948

Verification Level

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