Harvard Art Museums > 2003.56: Untitled Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Untitled (Alfonso Ossorio) , 2003.56,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/93490. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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by Alfonso Ossorio" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2004), Unpublished, pp. 1-19 passim Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh.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 Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) #2: CB30 Photography and Society & HAA172w American Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/09/2009 - 01/10/2010 American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
