1966.43: Three Birds; verso: Bird
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1966.43
- People
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David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT)
- Title
- Three Birds; verso: Bird
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1945
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/308871
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black ink and blue-gray watercolor on cream wove paper (recto and verso)
- Dimensions
- actual: 25.4 x 18.4 cm (10 x 7 1/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: upper edge, graphite: Show opposite
- inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: 1785-5
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of David Smith
- Copyright
- © The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
- Accession Year
- 1966
- Object Number
- 1966.43
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Sheet has been cut; part of another bird shows at right edge.
Publication History
- Jeanne L. Wasserman, Six Sculptors and Their Drawings, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1971), no. 31
- James Harper, Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), cat. no. 29, repr. (recto and verso), pp. 13, 16
- Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 236, 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
- Six Sculptors and Their Drawings, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/07/1971 - 06/07/1971
- David Smith: "This work is my identity", Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/1995 - 05/05/1996
- Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/19/2001 - 08/12/2001
Verification Level
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