2002.77: The whole soul summed up...
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2002.77
- People
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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
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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
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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
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
- Permissions
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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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