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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.444
People
Alexander Calder, American (Philadelphia, PA 1898 - 1976 New York, NY)
Title
Studies of a Hippopotamus
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1925
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308839

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and black ink on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 33.7 x 27.4 cm (13 1/4 x 10 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: A. Calder
  • watermark: Left edge, twice, incomplete: INTERNATIONAL / BOND / MADE IN (W monogram) USA

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Meta and Paul J. Sachs (L. 2091), Cambridge Massachusetts, by 1945, bequeathed; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Copyright
© Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.444
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jean Lipman, Calder's Universe, Whitney Museum of American Art and Viking Press (New York, 1976), pp. 81 - 82
  • Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), pp. 23, 39, 91, 94, cat. 10, fig. 4 (detail)
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 42, 44-45, 110, repr. as fig. 1 on p. 44, pl. 41 on p. 110
  • Penley Knipe and Miriam Stewart, Material Matters (A Watercolor Treasury, Support, Reserve, Opacity, Intervention, Resist, Impermanence), American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, ed. Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2023), Pages 40-67, Figure 1, Page 44

Exhibition History

  • Three Centuries of the Comic Spirit, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, 05/01/1953 - 05/30/1953
  • Contemporary American Drawings, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 01/11/1956 - 02/26/1956
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Lincoln Laboratory, 1975, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, 04/01/1975 - 08/31/1975
  • Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977
  • The Heavenly Twins: Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs and the Building of a Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/23/1995 - 12/17/1995
  • American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

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