Four People in a Doorway | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1967.18
People: William Clutz, American (Gettysburg, PA born 1933)
Title: Four People in a Doorway
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1962-1963
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/308834

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Charcoal on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 72.6 x 57.2 cm (28 9/16 x 22 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: charcoal, lower center: CLUTZ
blind stamp: STRATHMORE SECONDS [in oval]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Possibly [David Herbert Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, gift to Harvard University Art Museums, 1967.

NOTE: The Herbert Gallery provenance was supplied by the artist, see his letter in the curatorial file. "Lois Orswell David Smith and Modern Art" suggests the drawing may have been purchased at the Bertha Shaefer Gallery, per the artist, he wasn't represented by the Shaefer Gallery until 1963.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Accession Year: 1967
Object Number: 1967.18
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. 22, pp. 312, 371, 379

Verification Level

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