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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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