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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2022.40
People
Beauford Delaney, American (Knoxville, TN 1901 - 1979 Paris, France)
Title
Untitled
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1964
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/375620

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor on white wove paper mounted to canvas mounted to a stretcher
Dimensions
57.2 × 39.4 × 2.5 cm (22 1/2 × 15 1/2 × 1 in.)
frame: 68.1 × 50.2 × 3.2 cm (26 13/16 × 19 3/4 × 1 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., in graphite: Beauford Delaney Paris July 64
  • inscription: l.r., in graphite: Beauford Delaney / Paris July 1964
  • label: white sticket on top of stretcher: jean-paul ledeur a Paris, 61 rue Raymond Losserand
  • chop: u.r., in reverse: VERITABLE PAPIER D'ARCHE / (illeg)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist, to; Paul Jenkins, New York, 1960s, to; Private Collection, to; [Menconi & Schoelkopf Fine Art, New York (2021-2022)], sold; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2022.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
Accession Year
2022
Object Number
2022.40
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Murray Whyte, "A Century of Watercolors at Harvard Display the Form's Unruly Pleasures", Boston Globe (Boston, July 2, 2023), p. N4
  • "Watercolors at Harvard and MOMA", website, July 11, 2023, mentioned and repr. [https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/watercolors-at-harvard-and-moma/; accessed 10-2-23]
  • 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. 20, 136, repr. as pl. 65 on p. 136

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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