Harvard Art Museums > 1965.444: Studies of a Hippopotamus Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Studies of a Hippopotamus (Alexander Calder) , 1965.444,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/308839. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1965.444 People Alexander Calder, American (Philadelphia, PA 1898 - 1976 New York, NY) Title Studies of a Hippopotamus Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date c. 1925 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/308839 Physical Descriptions Medium Watercolor and black ink on off-white wove paper Dimensions actual: 33.7 x 27.4 cm (13 1/4 x 10 13/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: graphite, l.r.: A. Calder watermark: Left edge, twice, incomplete: INTERNATIONAL / BOND / MADE IN (W monogram) USA Provenance Recorded Ownership History Meta and Paul J. Sachs (L. 2091), Cambridge Massachusetts, by 1945, bequeathed; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs Copyright © Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Accession Year 1965 Object Number 1965.444 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Jean Lipman, Calder's Universe, Whitney Museum of American Art and Viking Press (New York, 1976), pp. 81 - 82 Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), pp. 23, 39, 91, 94, cat. 10, fig. 4 (detail) Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 42, 44-45, 110, repr. as fig. 1 on p. 44, pl. 41 on p. 110 Exhibition History Three Centuries of the Comic Spirit, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, 05/01/1953 - 05/30/1953 Contemporary American Drawings, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 01/11/1956 - 02/26/1956 Unidentified Exhibition, Lincoln Laboratory, 1975, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, 04/01/1975 - 08/31/1975 Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977 The Heavenly Twins: Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs and the Building of a Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/23/1995 - 12/17/1995 American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
