Untitled | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1974.146
People: David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT)
Title: Untitled
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1958
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/309088

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 56.6 x 78 cm (22 5/16 x 30 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: black ink, l.r.: 2 David Smith 9/13/58

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: 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: 1974.146
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. 255, p. 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Drawing Media" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2003), Unpublished, pp. 1-43 passim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

Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003

Verification Level

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1974.146: Untitled