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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1977.136
People
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
  • Signed: lower center, black watercolor: 8/57 / Hf
  • inscription: verso, graphite: at Hofmanns back yard - /Provincetown, Aug. '57

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[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
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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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