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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1988.368
People
Morris Louis, American (Baltimore, MD 1912 - 1962 Washington, DC)
Title
Untitled
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1950 - 1953
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309730

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on off-white tracing paper
Dimensions
actual: 22.5 x 30.3 cm (8 7/8 x 11 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • blind stamp: l.r.: ML [in oval]

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
1988.368
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Ragged left edge where sheet was removed from sketchpad. Remnants of red adhesive at left edge from sketchpad binding. Black ink offset on verso that shows through to recto.

Publication History

  • Diane Upright Headley, The Drawings of Morris Louis, Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, D.C, 1979), p. 132, repr.

Verification Level

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