- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1966.34
- People
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David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT)
- Title
- Leo Lances Photographing a Piece of Sculpture; verso: Three Reclining Female Nudes
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: The Artist Photographing a Piece of Sculpture
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1937
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/308868
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black ink, gray and white gouache, and scratchwork on cream wove paper; verso: turquoise ink
- Dimensions
- 17.3 x 25.4 cm (6 13/16 x 10 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: black ink, l.r.: [delta sigma for D.S.]
- inscription: verso, center, graphite: opposite / Leo 1937
- inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: 1785-11
- Provenance
- David Smith, Bolton Landing, New York, gift; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1961, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1966.
NOTE: See correspondence from Mrs. Orswell in curatorial file for 1966.16: "Some time ago, David gave me the sketches saying they were early ones and would I give them to the Fogg "some time."... I think my name should not be used for the purposes of labels etc., and that they should be "gift of David Smith"."
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of David Smith
- Copyright
- © 2020 The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
- Accession Year
- 1966
- Object Number
- 1966.34
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Karen Wilkin, David Smith: The Formative Years, Sculpture and Drawings from the 1930's and 1940's, exh. cat., Edmonton Art Gallery (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1981), no. 43, fig. 10, p. 35
Karen Wilkin, David Smith, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1984), Reproduced on p. 92, fig. 107
Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 227, pp. 267 note 76, 349, 379
Richard Mulholland, "Of Dreams and Visions and Things Not Known: Looking at David Smith's Drawing Media" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2003), Unpublished, pp. 1-43 passim
- Exhibition History
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David Smith: The Formative Years, Sculpture and Drawings from the 1930's and 1940's, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, 01/06/1981 - 03/01/1981
David Smith: "This work is my identity", Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/1995 - 05/05/1996
Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
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