- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1974.145
- People
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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/309098
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Metallic gold, metallic copper, black, orange, and blue paint (spray-applied) over stencil, with graphite inscriptions, on off-white wove paper; verso: black paint (spray-applied)
- Dimensions
- actual: 44.4 x 29 cm (17 1/2 x 11 7/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: u.r., black ball-point, in artist's hand: For LO / 5 Unequal bottom / Top not made / 1958
- inscription: in image, graphite: 4 1/2 / 5 x 5 x 49 / 5 x 5 x 44 / 10 x 46 / 7 x 6 x 17
- label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, typed and handwritten, signed: [typed:] DS considered this sketch to be / the nearest he had to the sculpture / "5 1/2" in my coll. / [handwritten in blue ball-point:] L.O.
- inscription: old backing?, graphite?: David Smith / Coll: Lois Orswell / Pomfret Conn. [see photocopy in curatorial file]
- Provenance
- David Smith, Bolton Landing, New York; to Lois Orswell, 1959, gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1974.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
- Copyright
- © 2020 The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
- Accession Year
- 1974
- Object Number
- 1974.145
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Jeanne L. Wasserman, Six Sculptors and Their Drawings, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1971), no. 39, repr. p. 41
Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 252, fig. 180, p. 357, 358
Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., Knoedler & Co. Inc. (New York, 2003), cat. no. 22, repr. (color)
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
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Six Sculptors and Their Drawings, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/07/1971 - 06/07/1971
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
Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 11/14/2003 - 01/24/2004
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