Harvard Art Museums > 2001.240: A Couple of Wet Rocks 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"A Couple of Wet Rocks (Bruno Jakob) , 2001.240,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 26, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/165337. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2001.240 People Bruno Jakob, Swiss (Geboren, Switzerland born 1954) Title A Couple of Wet Rocks Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1990 Culture Swiss Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/165337 Physical Descriptions Medium Invisible physical energy on white wove paper. [The actual drawing is a blank sheet of wove paper placed into a handmade glassine envelope which is itself placed into a handmade white wove paper envelope which is then placed into a handmade brown card folder. There is also another handmade glassine envelope which contains a white printed card. The text on the latter reads: "A Couple of Wet Rocks/(invisible drawing/energy)"] Dimensions 12 x 9.5 cm (4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: graphite, l.l. of drawing sheet: B. Jakob Sept. 1990 inscription: verso of invisible drawing sheet, upper center, graphite, in artist's hand: [An arrow pointing upwards] Top inscription: verso of invisible drawing sheet, lower center, graphite, in artist's hand: A Couple of Wet Rocks / Mappe #1 Green Prison Work / B. Jakob Sept. 1990 [some form of paraph?--a square with an arrow pointing into it] / Scuol / invisible Drawing/Energie / 120 x 95 mm inscription: inside leaf of outermost carboard folder, graphite, in artist's hand: A Couple of Wet Rocks/(invisible drawing/Energy) / A Segment of the green / Prison Work / Scuol Sept. 1990 / Bruno Jakob stamp: outside of handmade paper envelope: [Figure 1 in an oval] stamp: center of outermost cardboard folder: [Figure 1 in an oval] stamp: spine of the cardboard sleeve: [Figure 1 in an oval] Provenance Recorded Ownership History Bruno Jacob, New York, New York, 1990, sold; to Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, New York 1991, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2001. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky Accession Year 2001 Object Number 2001.240 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. Descriptions Description The work is composed of the following: One outer brown cardboard sleeve (30.6 cm. x 23.6 cm.) An inner brown cardboard folder in two parts One handmade glassine envelope containing a white printed card One handmade white wove paper envelope containing a handmade glassine envelope which contains a sheet of white wove wove paper with the invisible drawing on it. Publication History Amy Eshoo, ed., 560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006, Fifth Floor Foundation and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2008), p. 153 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
