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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2003.79
People
Jim Nutt, American (Pittsfield, MA born 1938)
Title
Smooth Sailing
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1969-1970
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/92241

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Acrylic paint on two-sided aluminum panel
Dimensions
sight: 118.8 x 91.4 cm (46 3/4 x 36 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: On verso: A lusty gust by Jim Nutt
  • inscription: On verso in stylized script over a wavy line:: Smooth Sailing
  • inscription: On verso:: a sharp fart from the windy city
  • inscription: On verso below title inscription, signed:: A lusty gust by Jim Nutt

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[through Simone Stern Gallery], sold in 1972. Nancy Stern, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2003.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Nancy Stern in memory of S. Walter Stern, Jr. (1935)
Accession Year
2003
Object Number
2003.79
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Maurice Tuchman and Carol Eliel, Parallel Visions : Modern Artists and Outsider Art, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA, 1992), p. 161, fig. 134 (illus. b/w)

Exhibition History

  • Nominally Figured: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/08/2006 - 02/25/2007

Verification Level

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