2021.635: Colombier

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2021.635

People

Romare Bearden, American (Charlotte, NC 1911 - 1988 New York, NY)

Title

Colombier

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1987

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/374752

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Collage and watercolor

Technique

Collage

Dimensions

15.2 × 23 × 0.6 cm (6 × 9 1/16 × 1/4 in.)
mat: 21.6 × 29.2 cm (8 1/2 × 11 1/2 in.)
frame: 23.7 × 31.3 × 4.1 cm (9 5/16 × 12 5/16 × 1 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: removed from backing board, in brown ink: "Colombier" - one of pair
• label: removed from backing board: Collection: / Jane and David Shapiro / Cambridge, Mass.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

The Artist; to Jane B. Shapiro (by 1991-2021), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2021.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the David L. and Jane B. Shapiro Collection

Copyright

© Romare Bearden Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Accession Year

2021

Object Number

2021.635

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Timothy Standring, [Review] "American Watercolors, 1880-1990: Into the Light", The Burlington Magazine (August 2023), 165, pp. 908-911, p. 910
• Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 17, 137, repr. as pl. 66 on p. 137

Exhibition History

• American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

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