2003.79: Smooth Sailing

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

Permissions

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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

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