1965.137: Head of a Woman
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1965.137
- People
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Arthur Polonsky, American (Lynn, MA 1925 -)
- Title
- Head of a Woman
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Head of a Young Girl / Study of a Young Woman
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1945 - 1946
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/308732
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Brown oil paint and graphite on pale buff paper, mounted on brown cardboard
- Dimensions
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mount: 54.6 x 40.6 cm (21 1/2 x 16 in.)
actual: 43.3 x 31 cm (17 1/16 x 12 3/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: graphite, l.l.: Polonsky
- label: removed from mount, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: [printed:] Boris Mirski / [illustration of man and urn] / Art Gallery / 166 Newbury Street / Boston 16, Mass; [typed:] Framed for / Dr. Paul Sachs
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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[Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts], sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091), by 1946, bequest; to 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
- 1965.137
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- Arthur Polonsky, Fitchburg Art Museum, 03/11/1990 - 05/27/1990
Verification Level
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