2005.102: Study for "Box Smashed Flat (Vicksburg)"
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2005.102
- People
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Edward Ruscha, American (Omaha, NE born 1937)
- Title
- Study for "Box Smashed Flat (Vicksburg)"
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Raisin (Study for Vicksburg)
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1960
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/4869
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite on cream tracing paper
- Dimensions
- 57.7 × 47.1 cm (22 11/16 × 18 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: graphite, l.r.: Ed Ruscha 1960
- gallery label: top center of backing board of frame, paper: Anthony Meier Fine Art / 1969 California Street / San Francisco / California 94109 / Ed Ruscha / Raisin (Study for Vicksburg), 1960 / Pencil on vellum / 22 x 16 1/2 inches / 55.9 x 41.9 cm
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Stavros Merjos and Honor Fraser. [Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, California], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2005.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Turvey D1960.11
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
- Copyright
- © Ed Ruscha
- Accession Year
- 2005
- Object Number
- 2005.102
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Lisa Turvey, ed., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Gagosian Gallery, New York (New York, 2014), p. 53, cat. no. D1960.11, ill. (color)
- Susan Dackerman, ed., Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2015), pp. 148-149, cat. 34, ill. (color)
- Jennifer Quick, Back to the Drawing Board: Ed Ruscha, Art, and Design in the 1960s, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2022), pp. 62, 64, fig. 44, ill. (color)
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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