2003.39: Untitled (Recovery Series)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2003.39

People

Alfonso Ossorio, American (Manila, The Philippines 1916 - 1990 East Hampton, NY)

Title

Untitled (Recovery Series)

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Recovery Drawing Z; In my end is my beginning

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

12/04/1990

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/95015

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Fiber-tip ink on white wove paper, from a spiral-bound sketchbook

Dimensions

33 x 24.5 cm (13 x 9 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: back of frame, paper and black ink, inscribed: [in Frederic Ossorio's hand] T.S. Eliot East Coker / Line 1 / In my beginning is my end / Line 208 / In my end is my beginning
• gallery label: back of frame, paper and black ink, printed: Gilding & Custom Frames / Canvasback Gallery / 280 2nd Avenue P.O. Box 1102 / Niwot, Colorado 80544 303-652-2404

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Alfonso Ossorio, East Hampton, New York, bequest/gift; to Edward F. Dragon, 1990, gift to Frederic Ossorio, Boulder, Colorado, 1991, 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

2003.39

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• David R. McCarthy, "Alfonso Ossorio, '34: The Artist's Omniscient Eye", Portsmouth Abbey School Bulletin, ed. David R. McCarthy (winter 1991), p. 8, repr.
• Alfonso Ossorio, Recovery: The Hospital Drawings of Alfonso Ossorio, Center for Book Arts (New York, 1995), n.p., last drawing reproduced (color)

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