1973.81: The Long Rose Journey

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1973.81

People

Margaret Fisher, American (Chicago IL 1898-1990 Winnetka IL)

Title

The Long Rose Journey

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

20th century

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/308934

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Pink and black ink, gray wash, and white gouache on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 23.4 x 16.3 cm (9 3/16 x 6 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black ink, l.r.: MF
• label: inside mat, paper, typewritten: 15. THE LONG ROSE JOURNEY / Pen, black and fuschia ink with / wash and gouache / Lent by the Fogg Art Museum
• label: inside mat, l.r., red-and-white paper, typed: THE LONG ROSE JOURNEY
• label: inside mat, paper, printed: 23 [circular label, encircled in graphite]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Margaret Fisher, Illinois, gift; to Roger Fisher, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1973.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Fisher

Accession Year

1973

Object Number

1973.81

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Margaret Fisher: Drawings, Watercolors, Gouaches, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1973), repr. in color on cover
• John R. Clarke, "Margaret Fisher: An American Modernist", Woman's Art Journal (Spring 2003 - Summer 2003), vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 11-16, pl. 19 (color), p. 14

Exhibition History

• Margaret Fisher: Drawings, Watercolors, Gouaches, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/19/1973 - 10/11/1973

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