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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.149
People
Marsden Hartley, American (Lewiston, ME 1877 - 1943 Ellsworth, ME)
Title
Tree
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1927
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/19177

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
60.5 x 45.9 cm (23 13/16 x 18 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: back of frame, graphite: 3746 / Dick Sisson / c/o Grace Borgenicht Gallery / Hartley / "tree"
  • label: back of frame, printed, typed, inscribed: ARTIST Marsden Hartley / TITLE Tree 1927 / MEDIUM Drawing / PRICE 400
  • watermark: cut off at left edge near top: Importe D'Angleterre
  • label: verso: [inscribed:] 445
  • inscription: graphite, upper left, upside down: Sisson 3746

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Alan Chidsey, Trustee, Estate of Marsden Hartley, sold; to Richard B. Sisson, New York City and Cuba, New York (through [Eva Lee Gallery, Great Neck, New York]), before 1965, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2005.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Richard B. Sisson and through the generosity of Anthony and Celeste Meier
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
2005.149
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Collecting Privately, exh. cat., Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick, Maine, 1965), cat. no. 70

Exhibition History

  • Collecting Privately, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 07/02/1965 - 09/05/1965

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