Untitled (recto and verso) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1988.370
People: Morris Louis, American (Baltimore, MD 1912 - 1962 Washington, DC)
Title: Untitled (recto and verso)
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1950 - 1953
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/309749

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and yellow chalk on off-white wove paper; verso: black ink

Dimensions

actual: 22.5 x 30 cm (8 7/8 x 11 13/16 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: 1988.370
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Threads at right edge from sketchbook's binding.

Publication History

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

Verification Level

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1988.370: Untitled (recto and verso)