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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1950.47
People
James Naumburg Rosenberg, American (Allegheny City, PA 1874 - 1970 White Plains, NY)
Title
Hiroshima
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1945
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228718

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
75.6 x 63.5 cm (29 3/4 x 25 in.)
framed: 96.5 x 83.8 x 5.1 cm (38 x 33 x 2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: J.N.R.45
  • inscription: l.r.: Hiroshima
    On back: Washington DC/Gift from J. Rosenberg/1947/to Fogg/Museum of Harvard/Hiroshima/Atomism Series/1945

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
James Naumburg Rosenberg, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1950.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of James N. Rosenberg
Accession Year
1950
Object Number
1950.47
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints: Works of Art Collected and Painted by James N. Rosenberg, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1950), no. 9
  • Atomism, exh. cat., Associated American Artists (New York, NY, 1955)
  • James Naumburg Rosenberg, Painter's Self-Portrait, Crown Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1958), reproduced in b/w p. 140

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints: Works of Art Collected by - Painted by - James N. Rosenberg, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/05/1950 - 05/03/1950
  • Atomism, Associated American Artists, New York, 12/01/1955 - 12/31/1955

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