Harvard Art Museums > 1949.50: Collage No. 1 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"Collage No. 1 (Robert Motherwell) , 1949.50,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/229312. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1949.50 People Robert Motherwell, American (Aberdeen, WA 1915 - 1991 Provincetown, MA) Title Collage No. 1 Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1945 Places Creation Place: North America, United States Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/229312 Physical Descriptions Medium Transparent and opaque watercolor, ink, metallic paint, pasted wood veneer, felted paper, and cut papers on paperboard Technique Collage Dimensions sight: 54.9 × 37.1 cm (21 5/8 × 14 5/8 in.) frame: 71.6 × 53.7 × 5.1 cm (28 3/16 × 21 1/8 × 2 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: l.l.: Motherwell Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund Copyright © Dedalus Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Accession Year 1949 Object Number 1949.50 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 Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, reproduced in color fig. 89, p. 93 Timothy Standring, [Review] "American Watercolors, 1880-1990: Into the Light", The Burlington Magazine (August 2023), 165, pp. 908-911, p. 910 Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 52 on p. 121 Exhibition History National Exhibition, Boston Arts Festival, Boston, 06/01/1957 - 09/01/1957 New York School: From the First Generation, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1975 - 01/06/1976 Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986 Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000 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
