1990.47: Sketchbook: Swimming

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1990.47

People

Irwin Touster, American (New York NY born 1921)

Title

Sketchbook: Swimming

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

sketchbook

Date

20th century

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/309920

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite and wash on two sheets of accordian-folded laminated Japanese paper, bound in a book

Dimensions

closed: 15.9 × 10.3 × 3.2 cm (6 1/4 × 4 1/16 × 1 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black fiber-tipped pen, first page: I. Touster; graphite: I. Touster
• inscription: first page, black fiber-tipped ink and graphite, in artist's hand: [ink:] For L.O. / 1/3/63 / I. Touster / [graphite:] Swimmers-- / I. Touster
• stamp: back pastedown, blue ink: MEDE [sic] IN / JAPAN

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Irwin Touster; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1963, 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

1990.47

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Book has 21 pages, with 20 drawings. Drawings made on one side of the paper only, made to be unfolded and viewed as one image in a strip.

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. 282, p. 359

Exhibition History

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

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