1965.573: Hitler's Heirs

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.573

People

Boris Artzybasheff, American (Kharkov, Russia 1899 - 1965 Lyme, CT)

Title

Hitler's Heirs

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

Nov 1945

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/308884

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gouache and black ink on illustration board

Dimensions

image: 26.8 x 24 cm (10 9/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
sheet: 43.8 x 38 cm (17 1/4 x 14 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black ink, l.r.: Artzybasheff
• label: verso, u.l., black ink, red paper, printed: 10
• inscription: verso, u.l., black marker: A-28
• label: verso, center, paper: Shoreline Art Center / Artist - Hobbies - Photo - Framing / Supplies / Old Saybrook / 3-9639 / Essex / 7-1469
• inscription: verso, center, black ink: Nov 1st [ ]
• inscription: verso, center, graphite: Positive & negative / 5 3/8 x 6
• inscription: verso, black ink: [encircled:] Made / November 1945
• inscription: verso, right edge, brown ink: Faced with / Genuine / Whatman Hand-Made / Paper / WHATMAN / [ ]
• stamp: verso, lower right quadrant, red ink, stamped: 4968
• inscription: lower right, graphite: 6 / E4968

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Boris Artzybasheff, Lyme Connecticut, 1945, gift; his estate; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of the Estate of Boris Artzybasheff

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.573

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• [Reproduction only], Time [magazine], (December 10, 1945)., reproduced on cover

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