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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1961.117
People
John Edward Heliker, American (Yonkers NY 1909 - 2000 Bar Harbor, ME)
Title
Street Scene
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1936
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308613

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and black ink on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
20.5 x 26.3 cm (8 1/16 x 10 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: On verso, along left edge in pencil: 269.1936 Heliker

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091), 1936, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1961.

NOTE: Correspondence dated 1968, from Whitney Museum Research Curator Patricia C. F. Mandel, indicates that Sachs may have bought this work at the artist's first exhibition at the Maynard Walker Gallery in October 1936.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1961
Object Number
1961.117
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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