1977.113: Derby Hill Theme: David and Goliath

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1977.113

People

Pavel Tchelitchew, American (Kaluga district, Russia 1898 - 1957 Grotta Ferrata, Italy)

Title

Derby Hill Theme: David and Goliath

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1942

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/309118

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Transparent and opaque watercolor on beige paperboard

Dimensions

76.3 × 102 cm (30 1/16 × 40 3/16 in.)
frame: 100.3 × 125.7 × 5.7 cm (39 1/2 × 49 1/2 × 2 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: brown watercolor, l.r.: 1940 P. Tchelitchew 1942
• label: verso, paper, typewritten: [title, artist and date of work] Harvard University for Fogg Art Museum

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Estate of Agnes Rindge Claflin, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1977.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Estate of Agnes Rindge Claflin

Accession Year

1977

Object Number

1977.113

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• [Reproduction only], Exposé (Essays from the Harvard Expository Writing Program), Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1997-1998)., repr. p. 13
• Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as 47 on p. 117

Exhibition History

• Tchelitchew: Paintings, Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 10/06/1942 - 11/29/1942
• American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

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