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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1996.22
People
Earl Kerkam, American (Washington DC 1890 - 1965 New York NY)
Title
Head
Other Titles
Alternate Title: A Face (large)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1953
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305816

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and yellow-orange crayon on dark cream wove paper, darkened
Dimensions
37.1 x 54 cm (14 5/8 x 21 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: blue ballpoint pen, l.r.: Kerkam / 53
  • inscription: graphite, lower left: #4701; verso, graphite, lower right: #4701 [paraph?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[World House Galleries, New York, New York], sold, to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1958, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1996.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Accession Year
1996
Object Number
1996.22
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. 79, pp. 371, 378

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