Allen Parker | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1936.109.20
People: Denman Waldo Ross, American (Cincinnati, OH 1853 - 1935 London, England)
Title: Allen Parker
Other Titles: Former Title: Nude Youth Resting Head on Table
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1930
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/311458

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

35.9 x 25.4 cm (14 1/8 x 10 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: on back: DWR
label: on back, on piece of paper glued to canvas: Allen/Nude Figure Interior/With Myself in Background/Wt Wt Wt/RO B YO/RO B YO/RO B YO/Blk Blk Blk/Zinc Wt/Zinc Wt/Zinc Wt/O Verm. Fr. Ultram. Cad O./Bt. Siena Fr. Ultram. Raw Umber/Bt. Sien/Over a previous painting/DWR/Sept 1930

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Bequest of the artist to the Fogg Art Museum, 1936.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Dr. Denman W. Ross, Class of 1875
Accession Year: 1936
Object Number: 1936.109.20
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p.284-286, cat. 301, ill. p. 286

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