1992.264: Antique Female Head

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1992.264

People

Oscar Fehrer, American (Brooklyn, NY 1872 - 1958 New York, NY)

Title

Antique Female Head

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1889

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/309858

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk on gray wove paper

Dimensions

59.2 x 47.7 cm (23 5/16 x 18 3/4 in.)
Image is in an oval shape.: 50.6 x 38.4 cm (19 15/16 x 15 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: charcoal, center right: OF 89
• inscription: black chalk, lower right: OF.89

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Oscar Fehrer, Painted, 1889, to his daughters at his death?, 1958.
Catherine and Elizabeth Fehrer, From their father, the artist, at his death?, 1958, Gift to Harvard University Art Museums, 1992.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Elizabeth and Catherine Fehrer

Accession Year

1992

Object Number

1992.264

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Drawing on Tradition: The Lost Legacy of Academic Figure Studies, Harvard University Art Museums Gallery Series, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1994), no. 12, checklist no. 24, p. 11

Exhibition History

• Drawing on Tradition: The Lost Legacy of Academic Figure Studies, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/19/1994 - 01/29/1995

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