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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2002.77
People
Christopher Wilmarth, American (Sonoma, CA 1943 - 1987 New York, NY)
Title
The whole soul summed up...
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1979
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/175331

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Off-set pastel and watercolor on white wove paper
Dimensions
39.4 x 28.5 cm (15 1/2 x 11 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: across the verso of the drawing, black ink, squared out in graphite, in artist's hand: The whole soul summed up [underlined] / The whole soul summed up / when slow we breathe it out / in several rings of smoke / giving place to other rings / vouches [?] for some cigar / burning sagely the while / the ash keeps itself clear
  • inscription: verso, l.r. corner, graphite: W325.2 SWR
  • watermark: None
  • stamp: verso, l.r. corner, black ink: CMW

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Christopher Wilmarth, by descent; to Susan Wilmarth-Rabineau, New York, New York, 1987, sold; to the Harvard University Art Museums, through the [Nielsen Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts], 2002.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Estate of Christopher Wilmarth
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
2002.77
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Steven Henry Madoff and Nancy Milford, Christopher Wilmarth: Light and Gravity, Princeton University Press (Princeton, New Jersey and Oxford, England, 2004), pp. 91-94, repr. pl. 107, p. 93

Subjects and Contexts

  • Wilmarth

Verification Level

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