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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1977.174
People
Richard Serra, American (San Francisco, CA 1938 - 2024 Orient, NY)
Title
Study for One Plate
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1972
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309131

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithographic crayon on off-white wove paper (two sheets)
Dimensions
90.3 × 233.7 cm (35 9/16 × 92 in.)
frame: 93.5 × 237.2 × 3.2 cm (36 13/16 × 93 3/8 × 1 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: Serra 72

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York]. [Jared Sable Gallery, Toronto, Ontario]. [Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, sale number 4032, 20 October, 1977, lot number 228I], sold; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1977.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and from Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Copyright
© Richard Serra / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1977
Object Number
1977.174
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Drawing is made on two sheets of paper side-by-side and slightly out of line.

Publication History

  • Elke Solomon, American Drawings 1963-1973, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY, 1973), p. 61, repr. p. 47
  • Contemporary Art, auct. cat., Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. (New York, NY, November 1, 1977), no. 228I, repr.
  • Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, p. 116, fig. 114

Exhibition History

  • American Drawings 1963-1973, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 05/25/1973 - 07/22/1973
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986

Verification Level

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