Untitled | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1988.50
People: Morris Louis, American (Baltimore, MD 1912 - 1962 Washington, DC)
Title: Untitled
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1948
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/309407

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on cardboard

Dimensions

actual: 27.9 x 34.8 cm (11 x 13 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

blind stamp: l.r.: ML [in oval] [stamped twice, faintly, on verso; not stamped on recto]
label: red marker on masking tape, handwritten: 12
stamp: center, purple ink, stamped: ARTISTS MATERIALS / JOSEPH TOROH / Tel. CH38-8584 / 145 W. 14th ST., N.Y.C.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Morris Louis, bequest; to Marcella Louis Brenner, 1962, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1988.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Marcella Louis Brenner in honor of John Coolidge
Copyright: © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year: 1988
Object Number: 1988.50
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Formerly the back cover of a sketchpad; red cloth binding tape at left edge. Remnants of sheets of off-white wove paper still attached to binding on verso.

Publication History

Diane Upright Headley, The Drawings of Morris Louis, Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, D.C, 1979), p. 82, repr.

Verification Level

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1988.50: Untitled