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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1974.145
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/309098

Physical Descriptions

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
  • 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

Recorded Ownership History
David Smith, Bolton Landing, New York; to Lois Orswell, 1959, 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
1974.145
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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Drawing Media" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2003), Unpublished, pp. 1-43 passim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

  • 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

Verification Level

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