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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1974.157
People
David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT)
Title
Untitled
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1960
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309060

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Blue-green, metallic gold, and black paint (spray-applied) over "stencil" on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 44.9 x 29.4 cm (17 11/16 x 11 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: blue ballpoint, l.r.: For L O 3-11-60 [delta sigma for DS]
  • label: removed from old mount? now in curatorial file, paper, typed and initialed in blue ballpoint pen, signed: This drawing (sic) was one of a great / mass he did in one spurt; I liked it / but the composition always reminded / me of a painting of Murillo I disliked. / If I referred to this drawing as THE / ASSUMPTION it made DS quite cross, as well / it might. / L.O.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
David Smith, Bolton Landing, New York; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1960, gift; to the 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
1974.157
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 257, fig. 95 (color), p. 253, 358
  • Richard Mulholland, "Of Dreams and Visions and Things Not Known: Looking at David Smith's Drawing Media" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2003), Unpublished, pp. 1-43 passim

Exhibition History

  • David Smith: "This work is my identity", Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/1995 - 05/05/1996
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003

Verification Level

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