Head of a Woman | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1965.137
People: Arthur Polonsky, American (Lynn, MA 1925 -)
Title: Head of a Woman
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Head of a Young Girl / Study of a Young Woman
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1945 - 1946
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/308732

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown oil paint and graphite on pale buff paper, mounted on brown cardboard

Dimensions

mount: 54.6 x 40.6 cm (21 1/2 x 16 in.)
actual: 43.3 x 31 cm (17 1/16 x 12 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: graphite, l.l.: Polonsky
label: removed from mount, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: [printed:] Boris Mirski / [illustration of man and urn] / Art Gallery / 166 Newbury Street / Boston 16, Mass; [typed:] Framed for / Dr. Paul Sachs

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts], sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091), by 1946, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year: 1965
Object Number: 1965.137
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

Arthur Polonsky, Fitchburg Art Museum, 03/11/1990 - 05/27/1990

Verification Level

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