1978.73: Untitled #5

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1978.73

People

Brice Marden, American (Bronxville, New York 1938 - 2023 Tivoli, New York )
Frame by Brice Marden, American (Bronxville, New York 1938 - 2023 Tivoli, New York )

Title

Untitled #5

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1963

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/309148

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Charcoal, graphite and black ink on cream wove paper

Dimensions

32.1 × 24.1 cm (12 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.)
mat: 35.6 × 27.6 cm (14 × 10 7/8 in.)
frame: 50.3 × 42.2 × 2.2 cm (19 13/16 × 16 5/8 × 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.r.: BM 63
• label: backing, paper: # 7031
• label: backing, paper: FRAMEMAKER / Edward Finnegan / 70 Wooster Street / New York, NY 10012 / (212) 966-6483 / By Appointment
• label: backing, graphite and black ink, typed and handwritten: [graphite:] 5. / [typed:] UNTITLED [graphite] #5 / [typed:] Charcoal, graphite & ink on paper / 1963 / 13" x 9" / Lent by the artist
• label: backing, black felt-tip, handwritten: 46
• watermark: along right edge: Crtra (?) (palette) Dessin Grtra (?)
• label: Removed from backing board: [typed] The Pace Gallery / 32 East 57th Street / New York, New York 10022 / #7031 Untitled #5 // Marden, Brice 1963 // Charcoal, graphite, // & ink // 13" x 9"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Pace Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1978.

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

© Brice Marden / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Accession Year

1978

Object Number

1978.73

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Sheet is perforated at left edge where torn from spiral-bound sketchbook

Publication History

• "Exhibition Features Fogg's Contemporary Collections", Fogg Art Museum Newsletter, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, July 1979), vol. 16, no. 3, repr. in b/w, p. 7

Exhibition History

• Contemporary Art in the Fogg Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/01/1979 - 06/01/1979

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