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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1973.35
People
Edward Koren, American (New York NY 1935 - 2023 Brookfield, Vermont)
Title
Santa Claus Dropping a Bomb
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1972
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309001

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink over graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions
27.8 x 35.4 cm (10 15/16 x 13 15/16 in.)
image in black tape border: 17.9 x 19.3 cm (7 1/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
mount: 35.4 x 49.7 cm (13 15/16 x 19 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.r.: Koren
  • watermark: [tent design] Hamilton Edge
  • inscription: mount, u.r., blue grease pencil: all like 930
  • inscription: mount, lower edge, blue grease pencil: Advance op-ed hold in P-E "Santa"
  • stamp: mount, left side, ink, stamped: [red ink:] advance copy / [green ink:] Op-ed / Santa / [red ink] Hold in P. E.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private Collector, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1973.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift
Accession Year
1973
Object Number
1973.35
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Leslie Gelb and Anthony Lake, "And Is This To Be America's Hell?", The New York Times (New York, NY, December 24, 1972), vol. CXXII, no. 41,973, p. E9, reproduced
  • Seymour Simmons, III and Mark S. A. Winer, Drawing: the Creative Process, Prentice-Hall, Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1977), reproduced in b/w, p. 10, fig. 12

Exhibition History

  • Edward Koren: Prints and Drawings 1959 - 1981, University Art Gallery, SUNY Albany, Albany, 09/07/1982 - 10/10/1982; Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 10/23/1982 - 11/28/1982; Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, 12/12/1982 - 01/30/1983; Myers Gallery, Plattsburgh, 02/20/1983 - 03/27/1983; De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, 05/22/1983 - 06/19/1983; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, 07/21/1983 - 09/04/1983; Brown University Museum of Art, Providence, 09/15/1983 - 10/15/1983

Verification Level

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