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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1979.261
People
Alan Shields, American (Herington, KS 1944 - 2005 Shelter Island, NY)
Title
Look out for the Bulg
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1977-1978
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299936

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor on paper pulp and wire grid
Dimensions
35 × 64 cm (13 3/4 × 25 3/16 in.)
frame: 36.4 × 66.2 × 5.7 cm (14 5/16 × 26 1/16 × 2 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • gallery label: back of frame, paper, printed and typed: Thomas / Segal / Gallery / Alan Shields / Look out for the Bulg, 1977-78 / handmade paper with stainless / wire and watercolor / 13 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches / # 11125 / 73 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 / telephone: 617-266-3500
  • inscription: back of frame, marker: 0543 A

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts], sold; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1979.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquired through the Deknatel Purchase Fund
Copyright
© Alan Shields Estate
Accession Year
1979
Object Number
1979.261
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sheet has a convex curve.

Publication History

  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 70 on p. 141

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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