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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1990.46.1-39
People
Julius Schmidt, American (Stamford, CT born 1923)
Title
Sketchbook: Sketches for Constructions
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook
Date
1960-1961
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309853

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and/or brown ball point ink and black felt-tipped pen on two sheets of accordian-folded laminated Japanese paper, bound in a book
Dimensions
closed: 17.6 × 11.7 × 1.3 cm (6 15/16 × 4 5/8 × 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ball-point pen, front pastedown: Julius Schmidt

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Julius Schmidt, sold; to Lois Orswell, 1961, through [Fine Arts Associates, New York, New York (Otto Gerson)], 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
1990.46.1-39
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
39 drawings altogether, drawn on both sides of the paper and dated between September 1960 and January 1961.

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. 202, pp. 371, 379

Exhibition History

  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
  • Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006

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