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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1974.148
People
David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT)
Title
Study for "Agricola I" (recto and verso)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1951
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309099

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, gray gouache, and red-brown watercolor on off-white laid paper; verso: black ink
Dimensions
actual: 58 x 46.5 cm (22 13/16 x 18 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in image, u.r., black ink, in artist's hand: illfated cast iron junked / Aug 6, 1951 / remake in steel
  • inscription: in image, center right, black ink, in artist's hand: Steel Sept 8
  • inscription: in image, l.l., black ink, in artist's hand: 3/4 base; 6 11/32; 11 13/32

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
David Smith, Bolton Landing, New York; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 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
1974.148
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Pinholes at all corners.

Publication History

  • Jeanne L. Wasserman, Six Sculptors and Their Drawings, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1971), no. 37
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 309, p. 265, repr.
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 240, p. 349

Exhibition History

  • Six Sculptors and Their Drawings, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/07/1971 - 06/07/1971

Verification Level

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