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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M26157.A-B
People
Jackson Pollock, American (Cody, WY 1912 - 1956 East Hampton, NY)
Title
Untitled (Greeting Card for 1944)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1943
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/57161

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Screen print in black ink on orange-red paper, printed as a greeting card
Technique
Screen print
Dimensions
folded sheet: 14.3 x 20.8 cm (5 5/8 x 8 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: JP [on each image]; Jackson [verso]
  • inscription: lower edge of "front/primary" image, printing ink (void), negative screen printing, in artist's hand: signature (initials), date, address: JP 1944 46 E. 8th
  • inscription: lower right corner of "inside/secondary" image, printing ink (void), negative screen print, signed, in artist's hand: signature: J.P.
  • inscription: verso of "front/primary" image and inverted relative to it, black printing and writing inks, screen print and hand written, signed, in artist's hand: printed salutation and hand-written ?signatures? of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock (they look as though might have been signed by the same hand): Greetings / Lee & Jackson

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jackson Pollock, gift; to Mrs. Wally Strautin, 1944. Francis V. O'Connor, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, through [Charles M. Young, Connecticut], 2004.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
O'C. 1088 (P24)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2004
Object Number
M26157.A-B
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Francis Valentine O'Connor and Eugene Victor Thaw, Jackson Pollock: a catalogue raisonné of paintings, drawings, and other works, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1978), vol.4, p.156, no.1088 (P24)

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