2025.26: The Fence
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2025.26
- People
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Benny Andrews, American (Plainview, GA 1930 - 2006 Brooklyn, NY)
- Title
- The Fence
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1974
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/385308
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Paint and collage on canvas
- Dimensions
- 52 × 41 cm (20 1/2 × 16 1/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r., in blue ink: Benny Andrews/ 1974
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label: On verso, on printed collection label, in graphite: Collection: / Jane and David Shapiro / Cambridge, Mass.
I caught this at ACA before I met Benny but I had seen his Boxer at Boston MFA in 1970. - inscription: c.c., on verso, in ink: BENNY ANDREWS / "THE FENCE / 16X20 - AUG 1974
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Sold; through [aca Galleries, New York] to Jane Shapiro (1975-2024), bequest; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2024.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Jane B. Shapiro
- Accession Year
- 2025
- Object Number
- 2025.26
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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