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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1990.39
People
Reuben Nakian, American (College Point, NY 1897 - 1986 Stamford CT)
Title
Female Nude with Cupid
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1953
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309851

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on cream wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 35.2 x 42.7 cm (13 7/8 x 16 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black wash, l.l.: NAKIAN 53

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Egan Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1955, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1990.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Accession Year
1990
Object Number
1990.39
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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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. 177, fig. 154, pp. 129, 371, 376

Exhibition History

  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003

Verification Level

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