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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1969.80
People
Dorothy Coulter, American (Niagara Falls NY 1908-1980)
Title
Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1965
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308990

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper prepared with tan watercolor
Dimensions
actual: 35 x 21.3 cm (13 3/4 x 8 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.l.: Dorothy Coulter
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Prismatic Pencil
  • inscription: verso, brown ink: "The life of the people (Spanish-Americans / of northern New Mexico) wrung from an / arid soil dependent upon wind and / chance, is overcast by a somber / fatalism. The reach of the peaks and / the stretch of the plateaus overshadow / one's small life; yet life [next word underscored:] itself lifts / against them to sing its small song-- / and vanish." / Alice Corbin Henderson / in "Brothers of Light" a book / about our Penitentes.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Anonymous donor, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1969.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift
Accession Year
1969
Object Number
1969.80
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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