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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1988.463
People
Philip Pearlstein, American (Pittsburgh PA 1924 - 2022 New York, NY)
Title
Rocks I
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1956
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309796

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on cream laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 63 x 48 cm (24 13/16 x 18 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.r.: Pearlstein
  • watermark: MICHALLET / FRANCE
  • gallery label: back of frame (now lost), paper: [per curatorial file:] Peridot Gallery, New York, no. 1043, price $80, "Rocks I, 1956"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Peridot Gallery, New York, New York, (John Hohnsbeen)] sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1957, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1988.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Accession Year
1988
Object Number
1988.463
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Pinholes at all corners.

Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 186, fig. 159, pp. 130, 371, 377

Verification Level

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