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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.153.46
People
Denman Waldo Ross, American (Cincinnati, OH 1853 - 1935 London, England)
Title
Head of Walter Nelson
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Head of a Man Turned One-Quarter Left
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1932
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307282

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 35.6 x 25.5 cm (14 x 10 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.l.: DWR Nov 24 1932
  • inscription: l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: Nelson. / Drawn from a photographic enlargement / Drawn in the way of tracing. / Diagonal of the rectangle 36° / Coordination of drawing and rectangle / when the drawing was finished
  • inscription: verso, graphite, signed, in artist's hand: Metrical System / [ ] Coordination / Value and Color in Light / [lists of colors, witn notations] / The Sliding Scale of Values / A Register of all the colors and mixtures in light / DWR / July Sixth / 1931
  • watermark: WARD"S BOSTON BOND

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bequest of the artist to the Fogg Art Museum, 1936.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Denman W. Ross, Class of 1875
Accession Year
1936
Object Number
1936.153.46
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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