1998.266: Female Nude

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1998.266

People

David Hare, American (New York, NY 1917 - 1992 Jackson Hole, WY)

Title

Female Nude

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

20th century

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305807

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and wash on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 60.5 x 47.4 cm (23 13/16 x 18 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: backing board, graphite: Coll: Lois Orswell / Pomfret Center
• inscription: cardboard, taped to backing board, blue ink and graphite: [ink:] Coll: Lois Orswell / Pomfret Center / Conn / [graphite, another hand:] $75
• gallery label: backing board, paper: KOOTZ / Gallery / New York
• inscription: cardboard, taped to backing board, blue ballpoint, in artist's hand: David Hare / 15/11/57
• inscription: cardboard, taped to backing board, blue ink and graphite: [ink:] Hare / [graphite:] H224
• inscription: back of frame, u.l., grpahite: David Hare

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Samuel M. Kootz Gallery Inc., New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1955, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection

Accession Year

1998

Object Number

1998.266

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 70, pp. 371, 376

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