1998.76: Untitled
DrawingsThe drawing is of columns which are thicker in width at the front of the drawing and get thinner as they recede and fill the upper half of the picture space. The columns rise out of flared, segmented cones, the segments are defined by black lines. In the lower right corner, resting on one of the segments is a small egg shape which casts a shadow. The drawing is in shades of gray.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1998.76
- People
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Kay Sage, American (Albany NY 1898 - 1963 Woodbury CT)
- Title
- Untitled
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: The Minutes
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1943
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/199251
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gray wash over graphite on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 27 x 16.9 cm (10 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: black ink, l.l.: Kay Sage '43
- inscription: verso, graphite: 10
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Hugh Chisholm. [Charles M. Young, Glastonbury Connecticut], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
- Copyright
- © Kay Sage / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Accession Year
- 1998
- Object Number
- 1998.76
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Victoria Noel-Johnson and Marzina Marzetti, ed., Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy: Ring of Iron, Ring of Wool, exh. cat., Skira (Milan, 2023), p. 95, cat. no. 29, ill. (color)
Exhibition History
- A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1940 to 2000, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/2000 - 08/27/2000
- 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/17/2019 - 06/03/2021
Verification Level
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