1969.40: Head of a Kore, from the Acropolis

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1969.40

People

Joseph Lindon Smith, American (Pawtucket, RI 1863 - 1950 Dublin, NH)

Title

Head of a Kore, from the Acropolis

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1905

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/308866

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

34.2 x 25.4 cm (13 7/16 x 10 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.r.: JOSEPH LINDON SMITH / 1905

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Edward Waldo Forbes, Cambridge, MA; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1969.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Edward W. Forbes

Accession Year

1969

Object Number

1969.40

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, Melissa Renn, and Susan C. Ricci, The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2007), pp. 88, 96, pl. 49

Exhibition History

• Paintings by Joseph Lindon Smith, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 02/11/1931 - 03/11/1931
• The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/07/2007 - 07/08/2007

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