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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.112
People
Preston Dickinson, American (New York NY 1891 - 1930 Catalonia, Spain)
Title
Self-Portrait
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1926
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308728

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal and watercolor on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
sight: 44.8 x 29.7 cm (17 5/8 x 11 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, center left: To Oronzo from Preston
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper: Apr-May 1948
  • label: backing board, black ink and paper, typed: 60. SELF-PORTRAIT / FOGG ART MUSEUM / HARVARD UNIVERSITY, MA
  • label: upper edge of frame, graphite on paper tape: W. CA / 813
  • exhibition label: 1979-1980, backing board, paper: 1979-80

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Preston Dickinson, gift; to Oronzo Gasparo. Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091), bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.112
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Dickinson Surveyed", Art Digest (February 15, 1943), vol. 17, no. 19
  • "Exhibition, Knoedlers", Art News (February 15, 1943), vol. 42, no. 24
  • Preston Dickinson: exhibition of paintings at the Knoedler Galleries, exh. cat., Knoedler Galleries (New York, NY, 1943), no. 1
  • Charles E. Slatkin and Regina Shoolman Slatkin, Treasury of American Drawings, Oxford University Press (NY) (New York, NY, 1947), p. 33, no. 132 p. xiii, repr. as pl. 132
  • William Innes Homer, Avant-Garde Painting and Sculpture in America 1910-1925, exh. cat., Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington, DE, 1975)

Exhibition History

  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
  • American Drawings, 17th through 20th Centuries, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 04/03/1948 - 05/30/1948
  • Preston Dickinson, 1889-1930, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, 09/04/1979 - 10/07/1979

Verification Level

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