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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1994.24
People
David Smith, American (Decatur, IN 1906 - 1965 Bennington, VT)
Title
Relief with Bones
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1956
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232028

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Paint-box lid covered with canvas, paint and ham and chicken bones
Dimensions
40.3 x 28.9 x 7.6 cm (15 7/8 x 11 3/8 x 3 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: u.r.: David Smith, Signed Date: 8/10/56

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
David Smtih, sold; to Lois Orswell, 1959, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1994.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Copyright
© The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Accession Year
1994
Object Number
1994.24
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Sarah Kianovsky, David Smith: This Work is My Identity, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1995), reproduced in b/w p. 5
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 211, fig. 93, pp. 246-247

Exhibition History

  • David Smith: "This work is my identity", Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/1995 - 05/05/1996
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
  • HAA 1 Survey Course: Survey of World Art: Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/23/2005 - 07/31/2005

Verification Level

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