Harvard Art Museums > 1997.117: Untitled (Abstraction) Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Untitled (Abstraction) (William Baziotes) , 1997.117,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/264855. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1997.117 People William Baziotes, American (Pittsburgh, PA 1912 - 1963 New York, NY) Title Untitled (Abstraction) Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date c. 1944 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/264855 Physical Descriptions Medium Gouache on brown wove paper Dimensions 22.9 x 30.4 cm (9 x 11 15/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: graphite, l.r.: Baziotes inscription: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, black ink: William Baziotes / x: Peggy Guggenheim / Coll: Lois Orswell / Pomfret Center / Conn-- Provenance Recorded Ownership History [The Art of This Century, New York, New York], sold to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1944, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1997. NOTE: The Art of This Century Gallery was owned by Peggy Guggenheim. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell Accession Year 1997 Object Number 1997.117 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 1997-98 (Cambridge, MA, 1999), p. 23, repr. Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 4, fig. 30 (color), pp. 67, 81, 175, 306, 371, 373, 380 David Bindman, Suzanne Blier, and Vera Grant, ed., Art of Jazz: Form, Performance, Notes, exh. cat., Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art (Cambridge, MA, 2017), p. 62, 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 Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003 Art of Jazz: Form, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/23/2016 - 05/08/2016 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
