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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.189
People
John Avery Newman, American (Flushing NY born 1952)
Title
Drawing for "Tolled Belle"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1987
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309838

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Multiple drawing media, including graphite, pastel, chalk, felt-tip marker, metallic crayon (?), ball point ink, colored pencil, colored crayon; collage including tracing paper, yellow lined paper, graph paper, paper with white ground, tan paper, linen tape
Dimensions
sight: 182.5 x 182.5 cm (71 7/8 x 71 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, New York]. Raymond Learsy, Sharon, Connecticut, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1991.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Learsy Family
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
1991.189
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Pinholes at all corners.

Publication History

  • Amerikanische Zeichnungen in den achtziger Jahren, exh. cat., Graphische Sammlung Albertina (Vienna, Austria, 1990), p. 146, repr. in color
  • James Cuno and Lisa Andersen, Minimalism and Post-Minimalism: Drawing Distinctions, exh. cat., Hood Museum of Art (Hanover, NH, 1990), cat. no. 34, pp. 76-77, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Invitational, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, 01/01/1988 - 12/31/1988
  • Amerikanische Zeichnungen in den achtziger Jahren, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, 05/16/1990 - 07/01/1990; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, 09/12/1990 - 11/04/1990
  • Minimalism and Post-Minimalism: Drawing Distinctions, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, 10/27/1990 - 12/16/1990
  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1940 to 2000, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/2000 - 08/27/2000

Verification Level

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