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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.631
People
Hannah Wilke, American (New York, N.Y., USA 1940 - 1993 Houston, Tex., USA)
Title
Self Portrait, B.C. Series, Oct. 15, 1990
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1990
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/374378

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
105.4 × 74.3 cm (41 1/2 × 29 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., in graphite: Wilke 90
  • watermark: ARCHES

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2021.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon, and Andrew Scharlatt, Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles, in honor of Eli Scharlatt Davey, Class of 2017
Copyright
© Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon, and Andrew Scharlatt, Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles. Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.631
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Brian T. Allen, "Harvard's Fogg Museum Comes Back to Life with a Glorious Watercolor Show", National Review (August 10, 2023), discussed and repr.
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 36, 151, repr. as pl. 79b on p. 151

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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