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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2003.56
People
Alfonso Ossorio, American (Manila, The Philippines 1916 - 1990 East Hampton, NY)
Title
Untitled
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1951-1952
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/93490

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, black ink, and wax on white wove paper
Technique
Wax resist
Dimensions
38 x 28 cm (14 15/16 x 11 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso: upper right, black ballpoint ink, inscribed, in artist's hand: FOR ERIC / with all best / Alfonso Ossorio: East Hampton / 1.VIII.58
  • inscription: verso, graphite, inscribed: 7299 / Ossoroio [sic]
  • watermark: upper right: RUSSELL FLINT HANDM (ADE) part cut off

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Alfonso Ossorio, East Hampton, New York, gift to Frederic Ossorio, 1958, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2003.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Frederic and Siena Ossorio
Copyright
© Robert U. Ossorio Foundation
Accession Year
2003
Object Number
2003.56
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Scott Homolka, "Horror Vacui and the Process of Expression: A Technical Explanation of Drawings by Alfonso Ossorio" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2004), Unpublished, pp. 1-19 passim
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 61, 127, repr. as fig. 2 on p. 61 [detail], pl. 58 on p. 127
  • 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 2, Page 61

Exhibition History

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