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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2004.185.10
People
Elena Prentice, American (Boston, MA born 1946)
Title
Sky Study
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook page, drawing
Date
1981
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/51184

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions
10.9 x 15.3 cm (4 5/16 x 6 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Elena Prentice, Tangier, Morocco, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2004.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Elena Prentice in memory of Gweneth Knight
Copyright
© Elena Prentice
Accession Year
2004
Object Number
2004.185.10
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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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. 58-59, repr. as fig. 7 on p. 59
  • Penley Knipe and Miriam Stewart, Material Matters (A Watercolor Treasury, Support, Reserve, Opacity, Intervention, Resist, Impermanence), American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, ed. Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2023), Pages 40-67, Figure 7, Page 59

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