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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.201
People
Doris Caesar, American (Brooklyn NY 1892 - 1971 Litchfield CT?)
Title
Female Torso
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1953
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232817

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
sight: 147.3 x 38.7 x 20.3 cm (58 x 15 1/4 x 8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: right rear of base: Caesar 53

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Weyhe Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, 1955, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1990.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
1995.201
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 15, fig. 109, p. 306, 310, 375

Exhibition History

  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003

Verification Level

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