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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1967.19
People
Alfred Henry Maurer, American (New York, NY 1868 - 1932 New York, NY)
Title
Abstract Head
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th-20th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308794

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on cream laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 52.1 x 39.8 cm (20 1/2 x 15 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.l.: A. H. Maurer
  • inscription: back of frame, u.r., graphite: 19 1/8 x 15
  • label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper and black ink, printed and handwritten: No. 210
  • gallery label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: No. 9860
  • watermark: MICHALLET
  • inscription: verso, upper left, black crayon: #35
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 25.00

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, New York, sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1946, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1967.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Accession Year
1967
Object Number
1967.19
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, p. 117, fig. 106
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 169, fig. 152, pp. 130-131, 337( repr. b/w)-338, 371, 373

Exhibition History

  • 20th Century Abstract Painting and Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 04/16/1947 - 05/18/1947
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003

Verification Level

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