1979.148: Wild Blackberry

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1979.148

People

J. Dellinger Barney, American (Boston MA 1878 - 1959 Milton MA)

Title

Wild Blackberry

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1935

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/309142

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 36.5 x 28.5 cm (14 3/8 x 11 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.r.: J. D. Barney / 1935
• exhibition label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, inscribed, English: In ink: J. D. Barney / 87 Marlboro St. / Wild Blackberry - pencil / $125 [crossed out]; in pencil [Hofer's hand]: cost ced.xx Bot Jan 47 of the artist
• inscription: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, black ink, English: J.D. Barney / 29 Buckingham St. / Cambridge / Wild Blackberry
• inscription: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, graphite: $150 [crossed out]
• inscription: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, ball-point ink: FLH-539 [circled]
• label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper: Frances/Hofer

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

J. Dellinger Barney, 1935, sold; to Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1947; bequest of Frances L. Hofer, 1979.148

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer

Accession Year

1979

Object Number

1979.148

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

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