Harvard Art Museums > 1966.44: Composition; verso: Sketches of Plant Forms, a Bather and "Amusement Park" Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Composition; verso: Sketches of Plant Forms, a Bather and "Amusement Park" (David Smith) , 1966.44,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 28, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/308979. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1966.44 People David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT) Title Composition; verso: Sketches of Plant Forms, a Bather and "Amusement Park" Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1938 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/308979 Physical Descriptions Medium Black ink on cream wove paper; verso: black ink, blue watercolor, and green and orange crayon Dimensions actual: 18.9 x 25.4 cm (7 7/16 x 10 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: verso, l.r., black ink, in artist's hand: Amusement Park inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: 1785-1 Provenance Recorded Ownership History 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 1966.44 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Seymour Simmons, III and Mark S. A. Winer, Drawing: the Creative Process, Prentice-Hall, Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1977), reproduced in b/w p. 251, fig. 9.12 Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 229, 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 Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
