2001.33: Sketch of a Beach Cabana V
DrawingsA large rectangle occupying most of the center and top of the sheet contains variously shaped smaller rectangles, that are clustered in each corner of the large one. At top right is a smaller, similarly subdivided rectangle, to which an arrow from the large rectangle is pointing. At bottom center-right is a third, middle sized grid. The boxes in all three grids are labeled with the name of a color like “violet”, or with initials, “py”, “v”, “x”, “ow” or “o”, which correspond to a handwritten list at bottom left of the colors, “pale yellow”, “violet”, “white”, “off white” and “orange”, respectively.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2001.33
- People
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Ellsworth Kelly, American (Newburgh, NY 1923 - 2015 Spencertown, NY)
- Title
- Sketch of a Beach Cabana V
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1950
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/174159
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 27 x 21 cm (10 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso, l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: BEACH CABANA 5 50.129
- inscription: verso, l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: 1950
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Ellsworth Kelly, Spencertown, New York, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums through [Matthew Marks Gallery, New York], 2001.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the artist and purchase from the Margaret Fisher Fund and through the generosity of Kenyon C. Bolton III, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, Richard E. Oldenburg, and Emily Rauh Pulitzer in honor of Neil and Angelica Rudenstine
- Copyright
- © Ellsworth Kelly Foundation
- Accession Year
- 2001
- Object Number
- 2001.33
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Yve-Alain Bois, Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, 1948-1955, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1999), cat. no. 78, n.p., repr. color and p. 13 and indirect refs. on pp. 14, 16 and 17
Exhibition History
- Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, 1948-1955, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/06/1999 - 05/16/1999; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 06/08/1999 - 08/15/1999; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 09/11/1999 - 12/05/1999; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, 01/15/2000 - 03/19/2000; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 04/01/2000 - 05/28/2000; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, 06/29/2000 - 08/27/2000
- Acquisitions in Honor of Neil and Angelica Rudenstine, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/04/2001 - 05/06/2001
- Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006
- 32Q: 1110 , Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/07/2017 - 10/12/2017
Verification Level
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