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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1974.144
People
David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT)
Title
Untitled
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
Jul 26 1956
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309097

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink with blue, red, and black ground pigments on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 39.9 x 51.7 cm (15 11/16 x 20 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.l.: David Smith 7/26/56
  • watermark: [design with head [of Christ?] with upraised hand, flower, letters FJH] [ ]99
  • inscription: l.l., black ink, in artist's hand: for L.O.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, CT, Gift to Harvard University Art Museums, 1974. Probably acquired directly from the artist. Orswell placed work on long-term loan from 1971 to 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
1974.144
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. 247, fig. 177, p. 355, 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Drawing Media" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2003), Unpublished, pp. 1-43 passim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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