Untitled; verso: Half-Length Female Nude | Harvard Art Museums

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1974.155
People: David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT)
Title: Untitled; verso: Half-Length Female Nude
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1953
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/309058

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink on cream wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 76 x 108.2 cm (29 15/16 x 42 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: black ink, l.r.: [delta sigma for DS] 2/20 53
inscription: old backing to frame, now discarded, graphite?, signed, in artist's hand: This drawing belongs to / Mrs. Culver Orswell / Pomfret Center Conn. / She will pick it up. / 4/11/62 David S. [see photo of this inscription in curatorial file]
inscription: verso, graphite: [per note in curatorial file:] C259 #10 / Frame

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: David Smith, Bolton Landing, New York; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1974.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Copyright: © The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Accession Year: 1974
Object Number: 1974.155
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Edward F. Fry and Miranda McClintic, David Smith: Painter, Sculptor, Draftsman, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and George Braziller (New York and Washington D.C., 1982), p. 34, fig. 5, ill. (b/w)
Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 241, p. 268 note 78, p. 349

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