1977.136: A Tree
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1977.136
- People
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Helen Frankenthaler, American (New York NY 1928 - 2011 Darien, Connecticut)
- Title
- A Tree
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1957
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/309119
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor on thin white wove paper
- Dimensions
- actual: 20 x 12.5 cm (7 7/8 x 4 15/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: lower center, black watercolor: 8/57 / Hf
- inscription: verso, graphite: at Hofmanns back yard - /Provincetown, Aug. '57
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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[Tibor Nagy Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Daniel Bell, Cambridge, Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1977.
NOTE: Provenance information from a letter from Daniel Bell to Seymour Slive, dated 6 November, 1977, in the curatorial file.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Daniel Bell
- Copyright
- © Helen Frankenthaler / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 1977
- Object Number
- 1977.136
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Karen Wilkin, Frankenthaler: Works on Paper 1949-1984, exh. cat., George Braziller (New York, 1984), fig. 2
Verification Level
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