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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1972.21
People
John D. Graham, American (Warsaw, Poland(?) 1886 - 1961 London, England)
Title
Self-Portrait as a Warrior
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
20th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308999

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Carbon paper transfer, graphite and white chalk on cream wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 42.2 x 34.8 cm (16 5/8 x 13 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in image, graphite, Greek and Latin, in artist's hand: [transliteration of Greek: psychopompos; ochloloidoros]; IOANNUSPHOTIUSMAGUSSD / VOXCLAMANTISINDESERTUM / SANGERMANUSDUX

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1961, gift/sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1972.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell and purchase, Louise Haskell Daly and Francis H. Burr Funds
Accession Year
1972
Object Number
1972.21
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • J. Kirk T. Varnedoe, ed., Modern Portraits: the Self and Others, exh. cat., Columbia University Dept. of Art History and Archaeology (New York, NY, 1976), no. 43, pp. 61-62
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 60, fig. 124, p. 79, 317, 319 (repr. b/w), 379
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., Knoedler & Co. Inc. (New York, 2003), cat. no. 8, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 11/14/2003 - 01/24/2004
  • 32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/09/2022 - 03/06/2023

Verification Level

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