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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1973.32
People
Helen Frankenthaler, American (New York NY 1928 - 2011 Darien, Connecticut)
Title
Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1951
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309015

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
26.7 × 34.3 cm (10 1/2 × 13 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: Frankenthaler
  • inscription: removed from frame, now in curatorial file, black ink: Helen Frankenthaler

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Helen Frankenthaler, gift; to Daniel Bell, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1955 or 1956, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1973.

NOTE: Provenance information from a letter written by Daniel Bell to Daniel Robbins dated 19 June 1973, in the curatorial file.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Daniel Bell
Copyright
© Helen Frankenthaler / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1973
Object Number
1973.32
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Murray Whyte, "A Century of Watercolors at Harvard Display the Form's Unruly Pleasures", Boston Globe (Boston, July 2, 2023), p. N4
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 55 on p. 124

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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