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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR49.377
People
Eini Sihvonen, American (New York City 1928 - 1982 Norwich, Connecticut)
Title
Untitled [Flower pots]
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1947-1949
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/225498

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red pencil and black ink on two sheets of white wove paper mounted to sheet of off-white wove paper
Dimensions
45.7 x 61.2 cm (18 x 24 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on recto in red pencil, BR: "an elipse is a foreshortened circle // [illeg.] concentric circles projected on another // [illeg.] are[?] as proj. elipses."
  • inscription: on recto in graphite, BR: "SIHVONEN"

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Josef Albers
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
BR49.377
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Helen Molesworth and Ruth Erickson, Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, exh. cat., Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2015), p. 94, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Black Mountain, Blum Art Institute, New York, 04/15/1987 - 07/04/1987; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 07/18/1987 - 10/04/1987
  • Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 10/07/2015 - 01/24/2016

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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